Hello everyone,

I am trying to create a Linux Bootable CD, taking ideas from the Slackware-live project (www.slackware-live.org). My objective is to create a personalized bootable CD, with Dropline Gnome.

My questions:
1- At the startup, I'd like to be able to select video resolution, refresh rate and keyboard type, since the CD is to be used in many different PCs. I've heard that VESA drivers are compatible with almost all graphic cards, but haven't researched much yet. I have the system starting in runlevel 3, and use 'init 4' to go to gdm. Any ideas on how I can create a script to automate configuration of resolution and refresh rates for a generic graphics driver?

2- Same applies for network cards. I need the system to probe NICs in the machine and automatically install and configure kernel modules for them. Is this done automatically at startup by Slack?

3- I'm also looking for some program, with ncurses style or similar, to configure network cards at command-line, but something more advanced, that'd allow me to configure IPs, default Gateways, and DNS nameservers (Slackware's install script is somewhat limited on this, it only allows configuring the first NIC, and for the nameserver, I have to edit resolv.conf manually after installation, to change the 'search xxx' and add a second 'nameserver xxx' line).

If you could provide some answers or links for me to look at, I'd be pleased.

Thank you,
Andre