HOWTOs

"This is a simple remaster instructions, you can adment to suit your needs."

http://www.myrinix.com/www/index.php?optio...

"These instructions will help you take Gentoo 2005.1-r1 and make a single initrd file which can be booted with PXE. The basic principle is that the squashfs root is put inside the initrd and mounted from there rather than directly from a CD.

Where possible, this will be done without the need to be root on your linux box."

http://www.byteclub.net/wiki/index.php?tit...

"Steps:

1. Install live-package
2. configure /etc/make-live.conf
3. first make-live run: create basic chroot
4. install gdm/fluxbox within chroot
5. set defaults for user casper
6. re-create squashfs and iso image
7. test it using qemu

if everything goes well you will end up booting an livecd with fluxbox as window manager and auto-logon. The iso image will be about 126 MB (with /usr/share/doc and other things removed)."

http://wiki.debian.org/MichaelAblassmeier/...

"USB sticks are really useful. Not only for transferring files between computers, but also also rescue media, or more generally, to boot from. However, making a USB stick bootable can turn out to be tricky. This small howto describes the tricks that I discovered over the last years. The following commands assume the necessary package to be installed under Linux. It has been tested with Debian GNU/Linux sid (unstable as of 2006-06-26) with packages mbr (1.1.8-1), syslinux (3.11-3), and grub (0.97-11)."

http://www.mayrhofer.eu.org/Default.aspx?p...

"This is a quick guide to the internals of how the GoboLinux Live CD is constructed. It will get you up to speed with the tools that build the CD, allowing you to make customizations. With this we hope to lower the entry barrier to potential contributors to the distro's development."

http://www.gobolinux.org/?page=livecd

"I found no howto for Catalyst 2.0 and its documentation is not really good I decided to write my own howto.
Comments are welcome.

Here I present how to create a minimal live CD with Catalyst 2.0 with automated hardware detection. I do not guarantee that it is complete and has no failures. If you find a failure or have ideas how to expand this howto send me a personal mail.

As nopaste deletes posts so fast I attached the needed files to this post.
Catalyst currently only works as superuser.

Contents
1. Installing and configurating Catalyst 2.0
2. Creating a portage snapshot
3. Creating a live cd stage 1
4. Creating a live cd stage 2

Appendix
- Troubleshooting
- Needed files"

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-58518...

"Welcome to Debian From Scratch (DFS). DFS is really two systems: 1) a bootable CD for repairing Linux systems or installing Debian; and 2) the program that generates the CDs that are used for #1. Most of this manual focuses on #1. A wide variety of DFS CDs can be made using the DFS build tools. This manual will refer to CDs made using the default configuration."

http://people.debian.org/~jgoerzen/dfs/html/

"The first step was to choose our distribution. We are Fedora users. We started with RedHat and then moved to Fedora once RedHat went "pay". However, we use Knoppix as our default rescue environment. So we wanted to keep it in this arena. We immediately found Revisor. Revisor, the successor to Kadischi, is a Python GUI frontend to the livecd-tools package. It utilizes kickstart, a configuration management solution for Linux distributions, to allow the user to customize the LiveCD's root password, installed packages, and numerous other options."

http://www.kevinslonka.com/index.php?secti...

"Here is a short course (with some excursions) to help you take your existing Desktop, roll it into an ISO pipe and smoke a USB stick or CD. This is not a task for the faint-hearted - there are no automated scripts in here!

Part of the reason for this hands-on approach is that each desktop system will have its own quirks, so writing scripts which handle the various conditions which might arise is painful. Secondly, there are numerous choices possible - you must mix your own. Finally, I must confess that I do not feel energetic enough to write the scripts at this point. Instead, you have this article!"

http://linuxgazette.net/113/kapil.html

This howto is intended to show you the fastest way to get a bootable openSUSE 10.3 live USB stick.

Other than Ubuntu- and Fedora-type systems, the initrd on SUSE-type live CDs is not directly suitable for booting from a USB stick. The openSUSE system image creator, Kiwi, can produce initrd files for Live USB media, however. These differ e.g., in the linuxrc script and in the supplied kernel modules.

http://en.opensuse.org/Live_USB_stick