Re: postgresql live-cd

[Markus Schiltknecht <markus(at)bluegap(dot)ch>]

Hello Koen,

I've already gone through a lot of the stuff needed to create a live CD 
for PostgreSQL. It's currently about 55MB in size and already pretty 
stripped down to the minimum required to run (a recent Kernel, a lot of 
general modules, a busybox initramfs and a root filesystem with bash and 
everything, including PostgreSQL, but not pgadmin nor any 
documentation). I've built it on top of Gentoo, though.

As I wanted to have a removable CD I decided to use UnionFS. After 
booting, the CD copies itself completely to RAM (should be no problem 
given that size) and ejects. Then you run completely from memory: the 
50MB squashfs with a writeable overlay (UnionFS)

I soon need to update that LiveCD for the presentation at the summit, so 
I can probably provide you with the files needed to create the ISO image 
quite soon, if you want.

Regards

Markus

Koen Martens wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Introducing myself: Koen Martens, the person who took up the task of
> creating a live cd containing (at least) postgresql and pgadmin3, to
> be handed out on conferences (http://pgfoundry.org/projects/livecd/).
>
> Now, my idea is to create one of those nifty credit-card sized cd's,
> that fits in your wallet. We'd base that on DSL (Damn Small Linux)
> 2.4 probably.
>
> Of course, doing a credit card sized cd limits the amount of stuff
> that can be on there. Right now what should be on there i think:
>
> - Latest 8.1 postgresql
> - pgadmin3
> - browsable html documentation
>
> Don't know if that leaves us much space yet, will report later on.
>
> Any hints, ideas, opinions are welcome!
>
> Best,
>
> Koen