[mdlug] LiveCD with remote access

[Dan Pritts]

Others have mentioned SuSE and knoppix - most any distribution
nowadays has a LiveCD, and generally remastering them is part of
the documentation on their websites.   I like the Centos livecd
myself, mostly since i'm an RHEL user.

However, you can probably accomplish your basic needs with just a
standard LiveCD and a modification to your DHCP server.  Just tell
the DHCP server to assign the appropriate IP address to the ethernet
address of the PC.  ISC dhcp can do this for sure, but i'd be shocked
if any other DHCP server out there didn't have that feature.

Or, even lazier, just let it boot by dhcp and check the dhcp logs
to see what ip address it was assigned.


On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 04:27:57PM -0400, David McMillan wrote:
> 
> 	I'm amazed how empty Google comes up on this -- I've found lots of 
> forum entries with people asking similar questions, but not getting any 
> replies.
> 
> 	I need to create a Linux LiveCD (distro isn't too important) that sets 
> up a fixed IP address for my LAN and has an SSH (or even Telnet, 
> security isn't a concern for this) server running on boot with no 
> hands-on intervention required.  A full VNC server would be even nicer, 
> but I don't have to have it.  And it has to be a CD, not a bootable USB 
> stick.  Anyone know of a decent howto or set of instructions for doing 
> this type of thing?
> 
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