Re: NetBSD Live CD/PostgreSQL?

Ian Harding wrote:
> A really cool CD image is available for NetBSD which boots and runs
> NetBSD/KDE/KOffice/Samba without using a hard drive.

There are a set of scripts (called LiveCD) for doing this with FreeBSD.
It might even be the same scripts ported to NetBSD.

> I am not smart enough to know exactly how it works, but it must be
> creating some kind of magic hard drive in memory.

The LiveCD scripts use memory filesystems.

> I know similar questions have been asked before, but I think they
> implied using the on-disk operating system. The question is, is it
> theoretically possible, given enough system resources, to create such
> a thing with just the OS and a PostgreSQL server installation to use
> for demonstrating the capabilities of PG to someone who does not want
> to install it?

Absolutely. I've been playing with the LiveCD scripts and I should
probably make a bootable FreeBSD CD with a number of spiffy programs
on it. PostgreSQL would be a terrific candidate.

This comes up every now and again. What kind of demand is there for
such a CD? Email me if you want one (off-list please) and if I get
enough requests, I'll throw away some of my free time to create one
and post the ISO on the web.

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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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