[ale] how do I make a custom linux install boot from cd

[Boris Borisov]

You can built custom Live CD form within Live CD in puppy Linux. Never done
it but worth research!


On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 8:23 AM, Chuck Peters <cp at axs.org> wrote:

>
> On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 8:46 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) <
> atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I've been away from email for a few days, so if anyone sent something
>> directly to me, I'll have to get to you shortly.
>>
>> I need some linux geekery and wizardry extarordinaire.
>>
>> Let's say I want to create a custom linux install to do some specific
>> unique task, like monitoring the weather, be a vpn, or maybe mine bitcoins.
>>  So, say I boot a Mint 13 cd and either apt-get or copy programs and
>> scripts to get the system working like I want and doing what I want.
>>  Actually, I don't understand how you can install anything on a system
>> which booted from a cd, but that's another story.
>
>
> The way it used to work is all changes were stored in RAM, but things have
> changed...
>
>
>> Anyway, assume the system is doing the task that I want.  However, the
>> problem is, when I reboot, everything goes away, and I have to configure it
>> all over again.  So, how do I change it so that I can save all my changes
>> to another cd, and when I boot that one, the system is capable of doing the
>> special task I wanted.
>>
>
> Knoppix, http://www.knoppix.org/ or latest english version
> http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/knoppix705-en.html, was
> the distribution that popularized LiveCD's and it is based on Debian.  In
> older versions it had something setup called persistence which allowed you
> to save changes to a thumb drive or floppy or whatever, but I don't recall
> it having an option to save it to the CD unless you had a second CD burner.
>  Customizing the CD's took some substantial computer resources when I tried
> it a few years ago.  At that time it had a patched kernel to gzip the whole
> filesystem, and later replaced with squashfs and I don't know what it uses
> now...
>
> It appears the process of saving changes has improved quite a bit and they
> now offer the program flash-knoppix that should make saving changes much
> easier.
> http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/knoppix705-en.html
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knoppix will explain things better...
> http://knoppix.net/ was, and probably still is, a good place to learn
> more and ask questions.
>
>
>> I'm considering booting from a CD and, maybe, not even having a hard
>> drive.  That means I don't have to worry much at all about maintenance,
>> updates, and security, as long as it'd doing the task I want it to do.
>>  Don't have to worry about hard drive failures and power failures either.
>>  All the work I want the unit to do is network based.
>>
>
> I think hard drive failures compared to CD or thumb drive failures will
> leave you a much less reliable system.
>
> Have you searched for a customized LiveCD that does what you want.  Lots
> of people have created niche distributions and some are maintained better
> than others.   Search via Google for bitcoin mining livecd finds a few
> possibilities.
>
>
> Chuck
>
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