Build Tools

"PUD GNU/Linux project provides a set of live CD's build tools, including configure files, build script and packages list.

You have exactly the same tools that developers use. Hope this may help you customize and make your own live CD quickly and easily."

http://pud-linux.sourceforge.net/en/bfs.htm

http://download.penkia.org/build-livecd-cu...

"Our Builder generates our repositories and liveCD. It is a series of bash scripts, which can be gotten from our SVN Repositry. [...] Our script to build the LiveCD is based off the Debian Live project. Initially we hoped to work off Ubuntu's scripts but all we could find were ways to alter and existing LiveCD, rather than generate one from scratch.

Essentially we do a cdebootstrap, install all the packages we need, create a squashfs, setup syslinux and make an ISO."

http://www.gnewsense.org/Builder/Builder

http://www.gnewsense.org/LiveCD/LiveCD

Simple tool to automate installing Debian to a USB Flash drive using Debootstrap and a chroot jail. Easy to use and includes support for encrypted root partitions.

"This tool will automate the installation of Debian GNU/Linux onto a USB Flash drives or other removable media.

Features:

* Base install works on most USB flash thumbdrives larger than 256MB
* Simple Partitioning [Single partition for small unencrypted USB thumbdrives, OR two partitions for large and/or encrypted USB thumbdrives].
* Uses Mkinitramfs-tools.
* Simple user configuration.
* Simple network configuration.
* Hardware autodetection during boot.
* Privacy Features:
o Support for root partition encryption with DM-Crypt and LUKS."

http://feraga.com/project/deb2flash

"ROM-o-matic.net dynamically generates Etherboot ROM images."

http://rom-o-matic.net/

"[Instalinux] is a simple, easy way to install Linux. You follow the steps in the System Designer to choose from a bunch of different distributions and versions of Linux, and to choose what software you want included. The final product will be a fairly small ISO image (30 MB or less) that you can burn to a CD and boot from. It will automatically build your system for you, pulling what it needs from the network mirror you selected, while you sit back and relax. [...]

This site is most useful (currently!) to experienced Linux System Administrators who need to standardize their system install routines. It enables you to build custom install images for various flavors of Linux. A custom install image is one where most or all of the questions that a normal install asks have been pre-answered. You can also optionally preselect what software will be installed automatically before the system's first boot into service."

http://www.instalinux.com/

"EasyVMX! is the simple and failsafe way to create complete virtual machines for VMware Player on the web.

Install any Windows, Linux, BSD or Solaris, and test live-CDs in a safe environment.

Filling in only four configuration fields will create a downloadable virtual machine. [...]

You can install the following operating systems in VMware Player:

* Any of your favourite Linux distributions, be it Slackware, TurboLinux, Mandrake, Linspire, Ubuntu, Debian, Gentoo, SUSE/Novell or Redhat.
* Any version of Novell Netware.
* Any version of FreeBSD.
* Any version of Sun Solaris for x86.
* You can even install Darwin!
* Most other operating systems for the x86 platform will also run in VMware Player.

You can also run live CDs like Knoppix inside a virtual machine generated by EasyVMX!. It's a perfect way to test new stuff, and keep your computer safe at the same time."

http://www.easyvmx.com/

"The HP Linux Common Operating Environment (LinuxCOE) is a global engineering program which facilitates provisioning and lifecycle support of Linux systems. Key deliverables are to increase reliability, availability, maintainability and performance of global infrastructure and production environments by maintaining a minimum number of platform and component configurations.

LinuxCOE is licensed under the GNU General Public License.

LinuxCOE System Designer is a CGI-based web application that allows a user to create localized network boot images. To get started, download System Designer and follow the documented installation and configuration procedure.

Features

* A CGI-based network install image generator
* A profile manager to store custom install images
* A retrofit process to configure machines to use LinuxCOE processes for patch and package management"

http://linuxcoe.sourceforge.net/

http://linuxcoe.sourceforge.net/snapshot/

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles....

"make-live is a shell script that does automagically create Debian Live images foryou. The image generation is as simple as:

* cdebootstrap a debian standard system in a subdirectory.

* apt-get install the linux kernel image together with squashfs, unionfs modules and the casper initramfs image generator.

* Install the proper flavour packages with right preseeded questions.

* Clean things up

* Compress this rootfs as a squashfs image.

* Copy out the kernel and initramfs image.

* Assemble the iso, hd or netboot final image."

http://live.debian.net/wiki/live-package

"TCOS is a free software project, it consists in creating a micro OS (debian/ubuntu based) that when copied into /tftpboot root dir it gets served to a thin client network (pentium 350 64 Mb ram), this will boot terminals and connect by XMDCP to the server where the users can login and work. The idea is based on PXES project but TCOS uses newer kernel without patches and recognizes newest hardware."

http://soleup.eup.uva.es/mediawiki/index.p...

http://soleup.eup.uva.es/tcos/

http://soleup.eup.uva.es/tcos/screenshots/

"In this Howto you will learn like simply it are their own live CD from a the Scratch to be provided. It is divided into three sections.

In the section 1 explained like one is installed a Debian basic system by Qemu and entpakt with lomount. I have myself consciously approximately debootstrap decided because I the opinion am which one the expiration with Qemu better understand. In addition the Qemu is simpler variant to handle. They can download the result of section 1 in form of a tar.bz2 Archives (121 MT).

In the section 2 we come then on the point. We provide step by step own live CD. The finished live CD can download you here (227,9 MT).

In the section 3 I explain as simply and fast one MINIMIX rem asters and to install can.

This HOWTO is constantly updated and improved, if someone has an idea like one it make better could please answer-gives."

"In diesem Howto werden Sie lernen wie einfach es ist eine eigene Live CD from the Scratch zu erstellen. Es ist in drei Abschnitte unterteilt."

http://www.minimix.ch/debian-live/ (German)

http://www.minimix.ch/debian-live/files/mi...

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