Eric et al,

You could get around the writability by using a usb drive. You
could even use QEMU on it and not have to reboot. This might be
helpful: http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/usb-qemu.html
I haven't tried this, but it looks interesting. It sound like your
solution can be complex as long as the complexity is suitably hidden
from the end-user, right? If so, building a complete environment
shouldn't be too much of an issue.

-John
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Miami University Libraries
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On Oct 19, 2006, at 9:17 AM, Iglesias, Edward G. (Library) wrote:

> The only problem I see with using knoppix is the write issue. Knoppix
> is read only by default though you can change that. Still, this is
> now a
> complete environment, not an application.
>
> My $ .02
>
> Edward Iglesias
> Systems Librarian
> Central Connecticut State University
> 860.832.2082
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>> Behalf Of Eric Lease Morgan
>> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 7:38 AM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] java application on a cd
>>
>> On Oct 17, 2006, at 12:41 PM, Susan Teague Rector wrote:
>>
>>> I was thinking last night - you mentioned not being able to do an
>>> applet b/c of access to the file directory. You could do a signed
>>> applet that would allow your users to connect to the java
>> app. I think
>>> Tomcat, etc. is overkill for a CD...
>>
>>
>> Maybe I could go the Knoppix route.
>>
>> If I'm go to all the trouble of indexing my data, writing a
>> servlet/ applet, and installing a Web server (say Jetty),
>> then I might as well a TEI/XML editor, some way to annotate
>> texts, tools to build additional TEI/XML texts, etc. The best
>> way to package all of this up might be with Knoppix, and if I
>> use such a tool, then I could write my things in different
>> languages, not necessarily Java.
>>
>> --
>> Eric "Just Musing" Morgan
>>