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== Existing Live CDs with flashrom ==
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Flashrom is already shipped inthe following live CDs:
 
* [http://www.sysresccd.org/Beta-x86 SystemRescueCd Beta]
* [http://grml.org grml 2009.05]
 
== Why a Live CD? ==
 
It provides a user with a stable work environment to read, write and verify a flash device on any supported x86 hardware.
 
* Read, write, update and verify a BIOS image on any x86 system
* Boots on x86-32 and/or x86-64
* Complete Linux distribution
* User friendly
* coreboot logo splash screen
* GUI version with terminal for flashrom
 
== Flashrom Live CD ==
 
This page is a work in progress. There is no ISO yet. This is just a plan for now.
 
=== Included software packages ===
 
* Linux kernel.
* Complete and automatic hardware detection, not requiring any driver to be added.
* Mounts $windows drive read only
* livecd/packages:
** acpid, av, binutils, bison, busybox, bzip2, cabextract, cpio, curl, cvs, dev-util/git, dhcpcd, diffutils, dmidecode, dosfstools, ethtool, flex, ftp, gdb, grep, hwsetup, iputils, iproute, irssi, joe, lftp, livecd-tools, links, lsof, lynx, lzma-utils, mdadm, minicom, nano, ngrep, ntfsprogs, openssh, openvpn, pciutils, picocom, pptpclient, quilt, rp-pppoe, screen, strace, subversion, tar, telnet-bsd, tftp-hpa, unrar, valgrind, vim, wget, wireless-tools, wpa_supplicant, xc, zip
 
=== Complete toolchain for ===
 
* [[flashrom]]
* [[superiotool]]
* lspci
 
Size of ISO-image is <185 MBytes.
Small enough to fit on a flash drive or 3" CD-ROM.

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