Hi, Live CDs are literally taking off. There are gazillions of different ones to use. Some are focussed on being incredibly small, 2..100mb. fitting the maximum amount into 700mb being a demonstration of a bug distro (fedora live say)
They all vary. Some are brilliant at hardware detection, others are mediocre. Bewarned - the instructions on remastering are often terse, and neglect points that are kinda crucial. I am of the view it is easier to take a cut down distro and add things to it, which is safer than taking stuff of (to make room for your additions). You see, if you take stuff off, what gets broken? A colleague suggested basing things on fedora 7, and using the make live cd tool, as the ideal approach. He said it got him to his desired end goal the quickest. My thinking at the moment is to use puppy and add to it, via puppy unleashed, and see how that goes. I have lots of dud CDs so far, and expect to collect a few more.. However, puppy will let you remaster to a USB memory stick, and that might save some "angst" over CDs going wrong. Derek. ================================================================= On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, Kerry Mayes wrote: > I'm not much of a fan of Live CDs anymore, but when I was, I found > Slax to be a remarkably easy system for creating custom Live CDs. > Everything is in modules you just add them to the right subdirectory > on the cd and they are loaded. There's a nice software system for > creating live cds, though it's Windoze based! I think it's called > myslax creator. > > Kerry. > > On 15/09/2007, Aidan Gauland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > After seeing Damn Small Linux at Software Freedom Day, I am going to > > try to modify the live CD adapting this how-to... > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomization > > ...to add some programs like Emacs, and parted, and maybe some other > > minor alterations. Unless someone can recommend an easier way. If > > it works, I will post what I did differently. > > > > Aidan > > > -- Derek Smithies Ph.D. IndraNet Technologies Ltd. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph +64 3 365 6485 Web: http://www.indranet-technologies.com/
