HOWTOs
Remaster Full DSL to Create Sahana LiveCD
Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 2008-12-21 15:53"Why I mentioned it as full remastering is, DSL now offers a convenient way to create your own DSL flavor using DSL extensions. But I prefer full remastering since it gives me more control.
Its mainly through trail and error that I found the steps to significantly change DSL to suit my needs. Of course few links helped me. [...]
Any way here goes the steps , now a mix of my trail & error, from this book and from other links :)"
Multiboot USB Pen
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 2008-11-19 19:15"It’s possible to get multiboot starting with grml 1.1, grml64 0.2 and grml-medium[64]. This might be useful if you need a 32bit together with a 64bit version on just one medium like a USB pen.
First of all take the 32bit version and install it to your USB pen using grml2usb. Then proceed as follows:"
Building a Debian Live USB/HDD image
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2008-11-04 14:03"The following sequence of commands will create a basic USB/HDD image containing just the Debian standard system without X.org. It is suitable for booting from USB sticks, hard drives and various other portable storage devices."
Make your own Puppy-CD
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2008-10-24 16:09"You can create your own Puppy-Linux with the following program.
Start the program "Menu | Setup | Remaster Puppy live-CD":"
LiveUSB How-To
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 2008-10-16 02:04"The information in this article is specific to Ultima Linux 8.4, and may not be valid for other versions.
Starting with Ultima Linux 8.4, it is possible to create a LiveUSB installation, where the entire Ultima Linux system boots from a USB flash drive (similar to how the LiveCD works). However, LiveUSB creation is still a slightly complex process, hence the need for this page."
Suse Factory LiveCDs README LIVEUSB
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 2008-10-16 02:02plugin in usb stick
check dmesg output about the device name (e.g. sdc)
umount all possibly automounted file systems
bzip2 -cd .raw.bz2 | dd of=/dev/ bs=4096
Customize SUSE Live
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 2008-10-16 02:00"Other than Ubuntu- and Fedora-type systems, the initrd on SUSE-type live CDs is not suitable for booting from USB. This page shows how to change the initrd so that booting the live CD image becomes possible from USB stick."
Live USB stick
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 2008-10-16 01:58"This page explains how to create a bootable openSUSE 11.0 USB stick. Also known as a LiveUSB "
Debian Live CD with a LAMP webserver
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2008-09-26 20:33"A live CD is a great way to allow people to learn about interactive websites of the sort built using Drupal, Joomla!, etc. This guide explains how to build a Debian Live CD using LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP). The process has been tested for Drupal using Lenny (Testing)."
Building a Custom virt-p2v Live CD
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2008-09-16 13:51"To build a custom live CD you must download the source for virt-p2v from http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v/ or from the Mercurial source repository (see website for details).
Please read the README file to find the dependencies which are all in Fedora > 8 or EPEL > 5.
The steps to creating a custom live CD are:"
