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