A friend who makes his living repairing Windows computers has asked me to build a Linux live CD for his customers to diagnose network connection problems. I thought this might be a good opportunity to promote OpenSuse. I have used Suse Studio to produce several boot USB’s for my personal education and I thought that this would be the way to go. As I see it the biggest problem is to accumulate as many network card drivers as possible on one CD. Could someone please give me some guidance as to how I should proceed?
Or perhaps Opensuse 12.1 is not the way to go, and I should be working with Knoppix or SystemrescueCD.
On 02/16/2012 09:52 AM, Dave Howorth wrote:
> ionmich wrote:
>> Or perhaps Opensuse 12.1 is not the way to go, and I should be working
>> with Knoppix or SystemrescueCD.
>
> I would certainly use Knoppix rather than openSUSE to solve hardware
> problems. I don’t know anything about SystemrescueCD.
All the drivers will be included as long as you have a recent full kernel installed.
You will need to make sure that the kernel-firmware stuff is in /lib/firmware.
As long as you do not distribute this disk widely, you can also include the b43
and b43legacy files that are extracted by /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware.