[linux-audio-user] Customizing linux audio live cds?

[Andres Cabrera]

Hi Iain,

I recently downloaded dynebolic, and I found it pretty cool. The kernel
seems fairly well tuned, and though I haven't given it extensive
testing, it was able to do jack at 5ms latency with the onboard
soundcard, so that's a good sign (I didn't try it for a long time but it
did something like 5 minutes or so without xruns, which is a good sign)
It has the option to 'nest' either on a hard drive or a usb flash drive,
so even though csound5 doesn't come with it, you might manage to run it
from there. I haven't tried the nesting, though....
Dynebolic is not that big, so maybe if you mount the iso image, then add
a directory, and then burn that... Does anyone know if that is possible,
or does that mess up the live cd?

Andrés

On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 00:26, Iain Duncan wrote:
> I'd like to be able to make an iso of a complete install including my 
> own software and data for csound, with the aim being a back up for gigs 
> should something go wrong. So ideally this would:
> 
> - detect any likely sound card properly
> - ditto for midi
> - have a low latency kernel
> - have jack & some other misc alsa stuff
> - create a reasonably sized ram disk in case I need to make some last 
> minute adjustments at the show.
> 
> I'd like to have the ability to quickly make a new version before each 
> show, so I want to be able to easily drop in some of my custom gig 
> software, along with csound5 plus my data and samples, and burn the cd. 
> Csound should be able to either use data files burnt on the cd, or 
> stored on the ramdisk in case adjustments were needed.
> 
> There seem to be plethora of live cd options. Can anyone suggest the 
> best course for the above? I normally use gentoo, but for the gig cd I 
> don't really care what it is as long as it's fast and clean and easy to 
> make. ( Ie a quick task that is done in a half hour before a show as a 
> back up. ) I don't even need xwindows really, just booting into runlevel 
> 3 is fine, so if the live cd or utility allows that customization that 
> would be cool too. Being able to run a small LAN or vncserver would be 
> slick as well so that multiple machines can share the same monitor.
> 
> Thanks
> Iain
> 
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