Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi all, > From a thread on another list (pro-audio/music oriented) we're > thinking about creating our own Live CD. I'd like this at least > initially to be based on Gentoo. Are there any good, up-to-date > instructions around about how to do this? > > In Google Books I found something called "Linux Live CDs:Building > and Customizing Bootables". It had the following link which is dead. > Did it move somewhere? I cannot find it yet. > > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_build_a_LiveCD_from_Scratch > > I found this in the forums. Any idea about how well it might work? > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=244837 > > There's a section talking about Catalyst. The first thing is says > is that it's not for the casual user. On a scale of 1-10 how difficult > is something like this? (I suspect that if I have to ask it's too > difficult.) ;-) > > Also this for general info: > > http://www.livecdlist.com/wiki/index.php/LiveCD_Creation_Resources > > Most interesting to me would be something like cloning an already > up-and-running system. Is that possible? > > Thanks in advance, > Mark >
Cloning a live system is pretty easy. I'm using a live usb boot device based off of the gentoo-amd64 minimal cd (and I'm adding more as I go). The liveUSB howto [1] on docs.gentoo.org is great and will answer most questions. [1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F
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