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