Make a Microdrive Live Linux CD
"To make a live cd :
1. Get the Microdrive Linux Live script set from above.
2. Untar the files to a directory.
3. Make a kernel appropriate for live cd.
* needs initrd, ramdisk and ext2
* preferably also support basic devices as below. [ cd, devfs, framebuffer, vesa etc ]
* No hard and fast rules. Afterall it's your damn cd!
4. Copy the kernel to ./src/bzImage .
5. Download busybox source tarball and put it in ./src .
6. Download syslinux source tarball and put it in ./src .
7. Run the scripts listed in ./scripts directory. [ Please note. Don't cd in to scripts directory. Rather run them as ./scripts/SCRIPT_NAME . All the scripts assume that they are working from directory where ./src and ./scripts ./doc etc are the sub directories.]
8. The purpose of scripts [ At first run them in this order as well ] :
* ./scripts/make-prelim-dirs : This will make all the necessary directories such as itree - where the initrd image will be made. cdtree - whatever is here will endup on cd. cdtree/zz - whatever other software you want to install, install it here. Also /etc/rc.d/links on the live cd will link lib, usr, etc, etc/X11/* from here to the live system during runtime. cdtree/isolinux - where the initrd.img, isolinux end up.
* ./scripts/build-busybox : This will build and install busybox in to itree. Will also chmod u+s the busybox library.
* ./scripts/build-isolinux : Well, guess what.
* ./scripts/find-libs : After installing the busybox binaries, you will ofcourse need the libraries i:e; libc, libm, ld-so etc. Well, this does exactly that. It cannibalises them from your host system. [...]"