D3D Live ISO

The D3D Thesis project aims to provide participants a Live ISO. This is an operating system that resides on a CD, DVD or USB stick that can run on all common computers, independent of the state of their computer's hard drives, thereby bypassing installation procedures for 3D printing related programs.

Links

• Porteus home page
• Wikipedia article on Porteus

Tobben's Notes While Developing ISO

Porteus uses modules, Slackware style. We want our ISO to have modules for

• Printrun (most importantly Pronterface)
• Slic3r
• Point-and-klick environment like KDE
• GNU IceCat Web browser (see Wikipedia article)

We need three separate ISOs:

• USB stick, 32-bit
• CD, 32-bit
• DVD, 32-bit

New ISO's are created within Portheus with script /mnt/sdXN/porteus/make_iso.sh.

Maybe useful:

save-changes - dump whole changes from the live session into a module

Wrote ISO to USB stick

sudo dd if=Porteus-KDE4-v3.1-x86_64.iso of=/dev/sdc

Didn't work. Re-formatted USB stick, extracted contents of ISO file and put it on USB stick. Mounted USB-stick, copied Portheus files over there and ran the script

/media/torbjorn/Porteus/Porteus/boot/Porteus-installer-for-Linux.com

This produced a final message:

Installation finished successfully.
You may reboot your PC now and start using Porteus.
Please check the /boot/docs folder for additional information about
the installation process, Porteus requirements and booting parameters.
In case of making tweaks to the bootloader config,
please edit: /media/torbjorn/Porteus/Porteus/boot/syslinux/porteus.cfg file.

Didn't work. Made new ISO with following changes

• UEFI support
• 32-bit
• FAT32 filesystem on stick

That did work, but FAT32 prevented anything from being stored on USB stick while in Porteus. Changed to ext4. Worked fine.

Guide to package creation and manipulation at porteus.org