HOWTOs

"Multiple machine boot CDs can be created with the following manual procedure. This procedure has been successfully used to create a single CD which is bootable on alpha, i386, pmax, and sparc. It should be possible to also make the CD bootable on macppc, vax and on sun2, sun3 and sun3x.

To create a CD which is bootable by multiple architectures, use the following steps in this order."

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/Howto/IS...

"Quick and dirty notes -- needs to be cleaned up some day. Some parts of this text assume you have ssh access to arklinux.org - if you don't, just let us know what you're trying to do and we'll give you sufficient access. [...]

* 1 How to create a customized Ark Linux CD
o 1.1 Deciding what packages go on the CD
o 1.2 Adding packages that aren't in the repository
o 1.3 Adding steps to be run immediately after installation
o 1.4 Modifying the installer in other ways
o 1.5 Build your CD
o 1.6 Contributing
o 1.7 Keeping your changes for yourself"

http://wiki.arklinux.org/index.php/Customi...

"For Fedora Unity, creating, testing and distributing such Re-Spins have been a rewarding task, but as we looked around and talked to people it seemed everyone had his own way of customizing installation media and thus also creating Re-Spins. With Revisor (and this document), you can create Re-Spins yourself, the exact same way we do."

http://revisor.fedoraunity.org/documentati...

"Jiri Suchomel has created YaST module that makes creating KIWI images breeze, here are the steps to create your own live distro. As mentioned earlier, on other posts, you can choose to create Xen and other virtual machine images too.

The module is quite self explanatory, but here are the steps anyway."

http://dev.beryl-project.org/~cyberorg/sus...

"These are instructions on how to build your own LiveCD containing the Dell OMSA software suite, running on top of CentOS 5 i386."

http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Tech/...

http://linux.dell.com/files/openmanage-con...

"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. [...]"

http://microdrive.sourceforge.net/howto.html

"When you are going to customize your ariane CD-ROM, sooner or later you want to create an image of your modified system which you can then put on the CD to boot with your modifications directly."

http://quietsche-entchen.de/cgi-bin/wiki.c...

"The following documentation describes how to boot an existing LiveCD from your USB media such as a USB hard drive or memory stick [onto a Cell based system like the Sony Playstation3 or IBM Cell Blades]. The advantages of this are that you skip burning the ISO image to CD and theoretically it should be faster.

Prerequisites

* Greater than or equal version of the beta2 LiveCD for PS3
* USB media that is formatted as ext2 or ext3."

http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/cell/wiki/...

"Being able to make one's own version of SystemRescueCd was a frequently requested feature. It's now possible to make your own version of SystemRescueCd.

This means you will be able to add files to the sysrcd.dat compressed image file, which will be the filesystem of SystemRescueCd. For example, you can add script files that make a full backup of a server, or a binary program that you need. It's also possible to add data files, in order to have everything on the CDRom (data and system files which allow you to restore data). For now, it's not possible to change the kernel. If you need a kernel option that is disabled, please contact us.

The goal is to produce a new ISO image file, with an updated sysrcd.dat. In order to be able to make your own version of SystemRescueCd, you will need a recent official version of this CDRom, and a partition with read-write access from within linux, with at least 700 MB. If you make a very large version of the CDRom, you may need a lot more space."

http://www.sysresccd.org/Sysresccd-manual-...

"I have been struggling the last few days to make a custom LiveCD [...]. It has been a daunting & frustrating process, but eventually (with lots of googling & especially help from very skilled people (Colin Watson & Ben Collins, to name but a few) I made it happen...

To keep others from trying this hard, I documented the process here (note: most this steps usually need a bit of tinkering till they work right, but if you are up for the whole process, then I bet you'll get them right on your machine):

A slightly easier approach (I found this out recently):"

http://dsplabs.utt.ro/~juve/blog/index.cgi...