[ale] anyone doing LiveCD remastering?

[Preston Boyington]

Bjorn Dittmer-Roche wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Preston Boyington wrote:
> 
>> I am involved in a couple of remastering projects and was wondering
>> if anyone here does the same.  Mainly I am interested in projects
>> that people have done using Debian based derivatives
>> (Knoppix/Morphix/etc.). Especially with the result being a hard disk
>> install and upgrade. 
> 
> David Hamm gave a great talk about a year ago at ALE central on
> remastering Knoppix. He actually gave his talk off his remastered
> Knoppix CD without accessing the HD, which I thought was pretty
> slick. Perhaps we
> could put the talk up at the ALE twikki -- provided it's okay with
> David? Otherwise I can send you his OO present file off list, which
> I think he'd
> be fine with.
> 
> Ever since that talk, I've been meaning to try it myself, but never
> got around to it, partly because of laziness, and partly because
> I wanted to
> wait for them to adopt a 2.6 kernel.
> 
Knoppix 3.4 has the 2.6 kernel as an option.

also it doesn't use a boot.img for floppy emulation, it uses isolinux to boot instead.  this threw me for a loop until i found why my earlier mkisofs switches didn't work with 3.4.  now all is well.