Please add smartmontools to the live DVD

[Jim Kleckner]

Binary package hint: smartmontools

It would be truly useful for the Hardy live DVD to include smartmontools because it would be a better rescue disk.

Probably too late? But it doesn't require any changes other than to include the small package.

[Murat Gunes (mgunes)]

Thanks for reporting. Marking as a duplicate of bug #197881.

[Jim Kleckner (jek-ubuntu)]

I don't mind marking it as duplicate although it does seem like a smaller step/easier to just make smartctl available to query drive status.

[Jim Kleckner (jek-ubuntu)]

Well, as I feared, smartctl did not make it into Hardy presumably because the other request wanted all of smartd daemon, not just the ability to query your disks for their current health status.

A Google for "howto add ubuntu live dvd mage files" provides a lot of noise and leads to this page for Ubuntu:
 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LiveCDCustomizationHowTo
but that is empty.

Anyone have pointers for how to add a single binary to the live DVD and then re-build it?

[Jim Kleckner (jek-ubuntu)]

Oops. Just noticed pages:
 https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomization
and
 https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallCDCustomization