Create my own linux ISO

[Brian Hawkins]

Over the next few months I need to put together my own linux distro image. I guess I need to backup first. For school I'm creating a way to perform differential bittorrent downloads. I want to use linux distribution images as my test data. The idea is that if I have one release of an image and I want to download the next, chances are they are not entirely different. It would be really cool if I could then use matching blocks from the previous image to complete the new image and therefore shortening my time to download.

So my requirements are:
I can build it on my Fedora Core 6 machine.

I can modify the compression used when putting the image together.



Thanks
Brian

With that said I need to build my own distribution image that I can update with changes periodically and test against previous images. I also need to change the way the compression is done when putting the image together. The compression makes a big difference when trying to find matching blocks in a previous image. The packages update regularly so I can create new versions of the image with changes. I have no idea where to start with accomplishing this, as I have never put together a distribution before. I would appreciate anyone with experience in this area.

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