Great idea.  Strip it down to the bare essentials, kernel/boot/cdrom.
Get that working, then look at what other people are doing.
Theres no magic formula either, put it together anyway that
works for you.

I've been wanting to try some of this. Very interesting potential
for instant "appliance".  Search "cdrom boot" on sourceforge.net,
lots of projects, one that looks fun is: movix
http://movix.sourceforge.net/

I've learned a TON of stuff doing something similiar with my
Gateway Internet Appliance boxes that only has a CompactFlash
for boot.  Software can get so crufty its good to get down to
basics sometime.  I've now got my Gateway boxes scripted
to NFS chroot over to another box and fire up RH8.0.  Or they
can boot standalone and be an appliance(picture slideshow
is one idea I like.)





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