Re: [gentoo-user] Any good instructions for creating a Live CD?

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Eric Martin <freak4uxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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Thanks Eric. I hadn't considered doing it on a USB drive but that's an
interesting idea and the instructions don't look too bad.

Cheers,
Mark