[ale] custom LIve CD

[Greg Freemyer]

If you'd be open to a openSUSE kernel and base packages and a really
easy gui-like process, they have a liveCD builder (SUSEstudio).

http://susestudio.com/

You have to request an invitation, but I understand it now takes less
than a day typically to get the invite.  (I got mine early on and it
took weeks.)

We build a text only liveCD with it.  And we load in our own custom
scripts and forensic tools.  Pretty easy to use the studio to do that
sort of thing.

And once you build it, if you think its generic enough you can publish
it on the Suse Gallery.

And finally if you want to totally scrub the SuSE logo's etc. you can
buy the Studio Builder Product itself.  I don't know what that costs.
I suspect its designed for people wanting to build real appliances
like a NAS.

Greg

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 1:52 PM, jrtroberts <jrtroberts at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have recently started working very part time as a PC Repair Tech at US
> Gaming Arena in Roswell.  While I was there I saw that they were using a
> hodge podge of tools for working on PCs.  My first day I had to fix a
> computer with a bad hard drive.  All their cd based tools were not
> working, so I used an Ubuntu live cd and with some work fixed the
> problem.  I used a tool called ddrescue to do a bit copy of the damaged
> drive on to a new one and went from there.
>
> While I was doing this work I thought it would be a great idea to build
> a custom live CD for PC repair.  There may already be one available;
> however, I would like to learn how to build on myself.  I was thinking
> that running one the boxes as the desktop environment and using a super
> like weight distro like Puppy linux or something would work.
>
> Long story short,  would anyone be able to help me put this together?
> I would like help learning about different PC diagnostic tools and PC
> repair tools for Linux.  Most of the computers that are coming in are
> Windows based, presumably because most PC and Laptop users who utilize
> linux already know how to fix a computer.  So the LIve CD would be very
> windows centric in nature if possible, but otherwise focused on General
> PC repair.  I also did not know if Linux would be a good tool from
> troubleshooting MAC issues.
>
> Thanks everyone,
>
> Joshua.
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