Take a look at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
I built a distro based off of that a few years ago, very informative if only to learn more about how a linux system is put together. Peter ----- Original Message ----- From: Brian Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Provo Linux Users Group Mailing List <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 8, 2007 9:35:38 AM GMT-0700 Subject: Create my own linux ISO 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. 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. So my requirements are: I can build it on my Fedora Core 6 machine. The packages update regularly so I can create new versions of the image with changes. I can modify the compression used when putting the image together. 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. Thanks Brian /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
