Welcome to the LiveCD_Druid's homepage!
This page is your one stop for all info and questions about the LiveCD_Druid.

Goal of the LiveCD_Druid

The LiveCD_Druid aims to make it easy and fun to create and install LiveCD's.

• LiveCD_Druid has a pleasant looking GUI.
• LiveCD_Druid has simple and advanced options.
• LiveCD_Druid feature graphical progress indication.
• LiveCD_Druid has an ever present Default button to revert back.
• LiveCD_Druid includes complete documentation.
• NEW!!! LiveCD_Druid includes a LiveCD_Installer to install your LiveCD.

The LiveCD's that you create may include:

• Customizable splash screens on the live CD.
• Additional mount points on the live CD to enable hybrid setups.
• Customizable ISO files and sizes.
• Selectivity in the data you wish include or exclude on the live CD.
• Personalization of the user environment on the live CD.

Requirements

The LiveCD_Druid is quite flexible, this is only recommendations.

• A running Mandriva 2006 system with X.
• Two partitions, one root directory of 5GB or more, a swap partition of 2GB or more.
• Installing the rpm's in the download section.

Technology used

The LiveCD_Druid is written in Perl, using the Gtk2-Perl and Gnome2-Perl bindings.

Help Wanted

Help is always welcome:

• Help is needed on the auto-mounting of hard disks of the machine where the LiveCD is booted upon. (any HAL experts?)
• The handling of special boot flags passed to the kernel when it boots.
• Reporting of problems or bugs.

Feedback

This will eventually become a seperate page. What I have in mind is flames, praizes, sucsess stories etc. all in one place.

Thanks to the following people:

• My employer.
• The creators of mklivecd.
  • Jaco Greeff
  • Tom Kelly
  • Buchan Milne
• The Gtk2-Perl developers.

Other Links:

• pclinuxonline
• LiveCD
• Knoppix
• Mandriva
• Gtk2-Perl