Re: [squid-users] Re: LiveCD type install for transparent caching of YouTube, etc?

Paul Bryson wrote:
> Tim Bates wrote:
>> * GUI - definately not needed. Waste of space. You can do a pseudo GUI
>> in text modes anyway (which I would suggest doing for initial config).
>
> That was my thought too.
>
>> * I would personally suggest having a live-CD version with no disk
>> cache if possible. Some people may want to see how easy it is to work
>> before they commit a box to it. Obviously it won't cache (well, much)
>> if there's no disk, but as a demo it would work.
>
> Having it run as a live-CD is fine, as long as it will also install into
> a usable state.
>
>> * My choice of distro to base it on would be Debian (stable). They are
>> pretty solidly committed to security, and there's hundreds of mirrors
>> out there (with debian providing online lists you can query).
>
> I don't know much about such things. Are there Debian based live CDs
> that don't use X, have good hardware detection, install easily to
> harddisk, and would be easy to integrate Squid installs for which there
> are no official Debian packages?

Squid builds easily on Debian with only a few configuration settings in
recent squid. I wrote up the settings a while back:
http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/CompilingSquid#head-947a559d216b70700e568c757f1bb0cc96a97838

Luigi has been very prompt keeping the Debian unstable/testing
repositories up to the very latest official releases and fixes. So there
should be no trouble installing any recent versions.

>
>> * For post install configs, you could use the same interface as the
>> installer. Have the primary console run it via init (with askfirst so
>> it's not always running). You could additionally have a web interface,
>> running from a tiny HTTP server preferably.
>
> Agreed.
>
>
> Atamido
>

Amos

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