[DebianGIS-dev] Task packages for Debian GIS and the Live CD

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

I made the current live image available from

  <URL: ftp://ftp.skolelinux.no/pub/debian-gis/live/ >

A more final resting place would be nice.  Do we have a place to make
such images available?

The current image is 719 MiB, and contain the packages listed in the
tasks/workstation file as well as the kde-desktop, desktop and laptop
tasksel tasks.  It should probably be trimmed down.  It would also be
useful to have freely available test data prepared on the live image
(for example the Openstreetmap.org dataset loaded into postgis), but I
will leave that to others.

It would be nice to know if the live CD build process work for others
and not only for me.  It work on Etch and need to run as root or with
sudo configured to allow make-live and rm to run as root.

I hope my framework will get others interested in working on a Live
CD, and that we can all cooperate to make it a useful demonstration
tool for the Debian GIS project.

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen