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bobvanderlinden / distscraper

A scraper that retrieves install/live images (.iso files) from different distributions
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Can you include TRK, Slax, Hiren, Backtrack and other recovery/security distributions? #2

Closed josemariaaraujo closed 11 years ago

josemariaaraujo commented 11 years ago

I personaly like TRK (Trinity Rescue Kit), but the others also have their fans. It would be great if you included them.

Great work!!

FrozenCow commented 11 years ago

There are a couple of problems with these OSes: TRK and Hiren only distributes non-hybrid ISOs, so the ISO will not work on a USB device. You need a separate tool on your PC to write it to an USB device. (It is possible to let your PC write to a blank image hosted through DriveDroid)

Backtrack has 2 problems. They do not have a direct link to download their distro, so you'll eventually have to download it through a browser. Another problem is that they also do not distribute their ISO as a hybrid one, however they do use a recent version of syslinux, which means they can easily switch to a hybrid ISO.

Slax distributes both CD images as well as USB images (which is awesome I must say). However the USB images are distributed as ZIP files. I do not have an unzip mechanism build into DriveDroid (yet?), but this probably requires me to also write my own downloadmanager in order to reliably know when an image is downloaded (I can't atm, so I do not know when to start unzipping).

Believe me, I've considered adding them all, but atm it's not a good idea. I am working on true CD emulation. It requires a patched kernel, but if the patches will become available in most kernels, I can add a separate downloadlist where you can also download non-hybrid CD images, instead of only hybrid-images.

I'll close this for now, but will still consider it when the time is right.