[wplug] Customizing "live" distro CDs

[Tom Rhodes]

On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 08:40:52 -0400
Bill Moran <wmoran at potentialtech.com> wrote:

> "Vanco, Don" <don.vanco at agilysys.com> wrote:
> 
> > 	Has anyone ever taken a live distro CD (knoppix, gentoo, etc)
> > and (re)built it to accommodate a custom application?  I have not yet
> > looked into this myself - are there commonly available instructions (a
> > how-to somewhere) to do this?  The data I want to add is ~110MB, I'd
> > also like to strip out much of the other components of the base live CD.
> > 	I don't know much about the compression employed on these CDs -
> > ideally I'd like to make a bootable DVD that houses all the files
> > required for installing a couple of different distros.
> 
> Can't speak to the Linux live CDs, but I was using FreeSBIE to do this a
> number of years ago, and would still, except the distributed version of
> FreeSBIE these days has everything on it I need.
> 
> The FreeSBIE project has a configuration script, Makefile and good instructions
> on how to build your own FreeBSD live CD.  Worked on the first try for me.
> 
> HTH

#cd /usr/src/release && \
make BUILDNAME=5.2-CURRENT \
CHROOTDIR=/home/release \
CVSROOT=/usr/src \
RELEASETAG=HEAD release

Will generate a live filesystem CD as well as an install CD for
the specified release.  :)

-- 
Tom Rhodes