[Klug-general] Making live cds with mklivecd script

George Prowse cokehabit at gmail.com
Fri Aug 19 12:02:24 BST 2005


frank attwood wrote:

> 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
>
Gentoo offer a way to make your own custom gentoo install disks with 
catalyst. There is a how-to at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_build_a_LiveCD

George



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