Thanks to all who replied. Five useful answers in under 6 Hours. The SLUG mailing list is a very valuable resource.
In the end I followed the procedure found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LiveCDCreator and was able to achieve exactly what I wanted. cheers, Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
