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| | 2 | = What is a LiveCD ? = |
| | 3 | |
| | 4 | From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live-CD Wikipedia]:: |
| | 5 | A live CD or live DVD is a CD or DVD containing a bootable |
| | 6 | computer operating system. Live CDs are unique in that they |
| | 7 | have the ability to run a complete, modern operating system |
| | 8 | on a computer lacking mutable secondary storage, such as a hard disk drive. |
| | 9 | |
| | 10 | = SoCLib's Live-CD = |
| | 11 | |
| | 12 | On the SoCLib Live-CD, you'll find: |
| | 13 | * a bootable Linux system |
| | 14 | * a complete working SoCLib with its dependencies (SystemC, SystemCASS, SDL, ...) |
| | 15 | * cross-compilers |
| | 16 | * a video tutorial, explaining how to build a hello-world platform from scratch |
| | 17 | * example platforms, with full netlists and embedded software source: |
| | 18 | * platforms from the tutorial |
| | 19 | * a simple platform involving interrupt handling, with 1 or 4 processors |
| | 20 | * a parallel Motion-JPEG decoder using [wiki:Tools/Dsx DSX] |
| | 21 | * a simple [http://www.lua.org lua] shell under [wiki:Tools/Mutekh MutekH] |
| | 22 | * an H264 decoder |
| | 23 | * a TLM-T simulator running the famous DOOM game under [wiki:Tools/Mutekh MutekH] |
| | 24 | |
| | 25 | = Get your copy = |
| | 26 | |
| | 27 | You can simply [wiki:GetAccount get an account] if not already done, then download [http://www.soclib.fr/livecd/soclib-livecd-2009_04_22.iso the ISO file]. |
| | 28 | |
| | 29 | = Use the image = |
| | 30 | |
| | 31 | You can either: |
| | 32 | * burn it on a CD, and boot a computer from the CD, |
| | 33 | * Run [http://www.virtualbox.org/ VirtualBox], [http://www.vmware.com/ VMWare], QEMU or other virtualization software; and boot straight from the image, without burning it. |
