On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Eric Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: >> Hi all, >> From a thread on another list (pro-audio/music oriented) we're >> thinking about creating our own Live CD. I'd like this at least >> initially to be based on Gentoo. Are there any good, up-to-date >> instructions around about how to do this? >> >> In Google Books I found something called "Linux Live CDs:Building >> and Customizing Bootables". It had the following link which is dead. >> Did it move somewhere? I cannot find it yet. >> >> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_build_a_LiveCD_from_Scratch >> >> I found this in the forums. Any idea about how well it might work? >> >> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=244837 >> >> There's a section talking about Catalyst. The first thing is says >> is that it's not for the casual user. On a scale of 1-10 how difficult >> is something like this? (I suspect that if I have to ask it's too >> difficult.) ;-) >> >> Also this for general info: >> >> http://www.livecdlist.com/wiki/index.php/LiveCD_Creation_Resources >> >> Most interesting to me would be something like cloning an already >> up-and-running system. Is that possible? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Mark >> > > Cloning a live system is pretty easy. I'm using a live usb boot device > based off of the gentoo-amd64 minimal cd (and I'm adding more as I go). > The liveUSB howto [1] on docs.gentoo.org is great and will answer most > questions. > > [1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml > -- > Eric Martin > Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F
Thanks Eric. I hadn't considered doing it on a USB drive but that's an interesting idea and the instructions don't look too bad. Cheers, Mark
