HOWTOs

This is an howto create your own ubuntu live cd with firebird/ubuntu and custom applications ,in guide ubuntu variation used was Xubuntu (is smaller and can be customized easier ) but it works for any hardy release

"One day, I needed a Debian Sarge root filesystem to be used with User Mode Linux, because the official website of UML only provided Debian Woody images. This short document explains how you can create your own root filesystem and run it through UML.

In the document, host is the computer on which you're working, and the target is the system we're trying to build."

http://thomas.enix.org/HowtoRootStrap

"How to make a USB flash drive function as a Ubuntu (or Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu) Live CD. The base file system is ext3, it boots using extlinux and supports the same hardware as the Live CD. Instructions on how to update the Live CD and modify it's contents are also given. For the entire document /dev/sda is the USB device.

Booting from a USB device is ofter faster than from CD and USB drives are easier to carry. You should know why you want and or need this. We used Kubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn as our image for booting and a Gentoo system for building on."

http://edoceo.com/liber/ubuntu-live-usb

"Newbee USB INSTALLER UNDER WINDOWS

I have coded this over the past few days. A GUI for downloading and installing BT2 to a usb stick, flash card or usb hd in a way that the king of newbeez can do it so if your interested in this freeware, here is the link, feel free to ask questions, feedback welcome.....:

http://rapidshare.com/files/29047490/BT2US... Welcome to BackTrack 2 USB 4 WIN

1)What the hell is it ?"

http://backtrack.offensive-security.com/in...

http://sourceforge.net/projects/bt2usb4win/

http://rapidshare.com/files/29047490/BT2US...

"This is another method to create a live install of BackTrack 3 on your HD. The need for this was that an install of BT was required for a machine with only 4gb of disk space and that it also needed to be dual booted with another linux distro from grub. This is a very simple live install with no persistancy. it has been done on an eeepc."

http://backtrack.offensive-security.com/in... (scroll down)

"This question or a question related to part of this gets asked so many times, but people seem unable to find it where I originally posted it.

THIS TUTORIAL IS FOR BT2 BUT CAN EASILY BE ADAPTED FOR BT3

Most of this is aimed at a USB HDD but it should be obvious from this how to adapt it for a USB pendrive, stick, flash drive or whatever else you like to call them.

Ok so this is how I do a live install with changes, swap and data partitions."

http://forums.remote-exploit.org/showthrea...

"NOTE: This procedure works on the IRC Addict Pre-Release BT2 and the final release, but it does not work on sidc and earlier versions

1. Open the backtrack.iso file:

Option 1. In Windows, use a program such as isobuster
Option 2. In Backtrack, mount the iso
(mount -o loop -t iso9660 yourcd.iso /mnt/iso)
Option 3. In OSX, mount the iso

2. Extract and copy the /boot and /BT folders from the iso to the USB flash stick

3. Make the USB Stick bootable: "

http://backtrack.offensive-security.com/in...

"The T2 project is a set of Bash scripts to compile a complete Linux distro from source packages.
Puppy Linux is the tiniest and cutest and easiest and the best little Linux distro there is.
Put the two together, and we have Puppy From Scratch!

If you want to create your own custom version of Puppy, you can do it in three different ways:

1. Puppy Remaster-CD script
2. Puppy Unleashed
3. Puppy-from-scratch"

http://www.puppylinux.com/pfs/

"I have been enjoying my Ubuntu 7.10 Live Persistent USB for many months now. I use it to quickly and easily install Ubuntu on desktops, we also sell them at TheLinuxStore.ca. But it seems persistence was broken in 8.04. Turns out to be a simply mistake, but there are many steps to fix it. I have seen many people asking about this so I thought I would write a how to. This post will start from the beginning and explain how to make an Ubuntu 8.04 Bootable Live USB from scratch.

Assumptions:
You have at least a 1GB USB thumb drive
You have the ubuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso file handy
You are running Ubuntu on your desktop

Reconstructing the Ubuntu Live CD for USB

Step One - Make a directory to store the restructured CD [...]"

http://www.ryancloke.com/ubuntu-804-hardy-...

"Here we describe how you make a Polippix, update it, and change it, so that you can make a new version.

This guide assumes that you are running a Debian-based Linux distribution (e.g. Debian, Ubuntu, Kubuntu). If you are running a non-Debian-based distribution (e.g. Red Hat, Mandriva, Gentoo, Slackware, Novell/Suse), especially the apt-get commands must be replaced by the equivalent commands in that distribution.

Our svn-repository is incremental. We don't have the entire polippix CD. We just have the files that are necessary to change a Kubuntu to a Polippix or update an older Polippix. Please notice, that you must have about 4 GB of free space."

http://polippix.org/index.php?wiki=MakeYou...