[Klug-general] Making live cds with mklivecd script

Fri Aug 19 10:18:20 BST 2005

After a lot of searching around on the web I finally found the answer to my 
problem in the form of PclinuxOS.

This distro is a live cd which includes an install script and also comes 
bundled with the mklivecd scripts. So i was able to install it as a virtual 
machine, strip out all crap (taking snapshots as i went for when i broke it) 
and then modify and rebundle it as a live cd.

I managed to lose almost 200 megs of the live cd but it's still pretty hefty 
at 500 megs. But small size wasn't really a priority.
All i need to do now is write the tons of documentation to go on it and 
record the training videos.

Dan

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From: Kevin Groves 
&lt;kgroves at ksoft-creative-projects.co.uk&gt; Reply-To: Kent 
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&lt;kent at mailman.lug.org.uk&gt; Subject: Re: [Klug-general] 
Making live cds with mklivecd script Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 
21:35:45 +0100 &gt;frank attwood wrote: &gt; &gt;&gt;Hi 
all &gt;&gt;Does anyone have any experience of making live cds using the 
 &gt;&gt;mklivecd scripts? &gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;I've been trying to 
make live cd using a stripped down version of &gt;&gt;Mandriva 2005le 
like the excellent Harleem and Brugge distributions &gt;&gt;available at 
http://home.tiscali.nl/berenstraat/ &gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;The CD builds no 
problem but when i boot form it it hangs at &gt;&gt;'unable to mount 
loop filesystem dropping to you to a limited 
 &gt;&gt;shell' &gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;Does anyone know how to solve this 
problem? I've been trawling the &gt;&gt;web but without much 
luck. &gt;&gt; &gt; &gt;I'm almost in the same area but not quite. 
I'm playing with &gt;buildroot and a few other very basic ones as I 
need as small a &gt;system as possible. I want to avoid an installed 
system if &gt;possible. Have you checked out LFS? That might give some 
ideas as &gt;most seem to use a simliar method to mount the file 
system that 
 &gt;way. &gt; &gt;Kev, &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt;&gt;Dan &gt;&gt; &gt;&gt; &gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;_______________________________________________ &gt;&gt;Kent 
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