HOWTOs

"If you have a desktop or server setup that you want to have a full backup of or wish you could easily clone, you can do so with software packages that cost upwards of $1,200. But if your business is working within the confines of a small budget and your machine runs a Debian-based platform, Remastersys is the tool for you. Remastersys can help you deploy multiple machines or even take a sandbox server and copy it onto production hardware."

Creating your own custom Live Linux CD or USB distribution is not complicated. However, there are many different approaches depending mainly on which Linux base you decide to use. Many popular Linux distro's such as Knoppix, Ubuntu and DSL are based on Debian so for the following tutorial, we are going to focus on the simple creation of a Live Linux CD using Debian Linux as our base.

"I made a two-part screencast on how to build a Fedora Linux remix. The first video has some slides at the beginning that explains the process and then walks through it with a live demo. The second video boots the LiveDVD that was created, shows an "Install to Hard Drive" and then shows some of the features of the remix."

"The default ubuntu live CD is nice: it can boot fast, detect the hardware correctly, etc. But I always dreamed of customizing it (eg. add medibuntu support, etc.). The remaster_ubuntu.sh script offers a simple approach to do just this: we start with a working live CD ISO image, change its contents, and create a new live CD image. [...]

This script allows to customize an Ubuntu live CD in 3 simple steps:

"This is the revamped version of the Debian Internet Kiosk with Firefox 2 HOWTO. I have adapted it to use Iceweasel, which gives a major improvement for streamlining the process. I have gotten rid of the requirement to install from tarball. The extensions I use have matured a bit so as to give better functionality.