Custom live CD

[Donald Leslie {74279}]

Ted Roche wrote:
> On Mar 28, 2005, at 1:45 PM, Donald Leslie {74279} wrote:
> 
>> I need to create a bootable CD for a diskless laptop. Instead of 
>> booting intothe desktop it needs to start with a menu of choices . One 
>> of these will be the desktop.
> 
> 
> Don:
> 
> I'm not sure what you're looking for. Are you looking for more 
> information or other alternatives?
> 
> Knoppix remastering is covered pretty well in "Knoppix Hacks" from 
> O'Reilly.
> 

It took me awhile to answer. The O'Reilly book is pretty complex and the 
steps are time consuming.

At first I only need to add two Icons for program startup on the 
desktop. I tried the simple example of saving the desktop and rewriting 
the CD. Regretably this was now too large to fit on a cd . I tried to do 
the more detailed process of removing programs and rebuilding . I tried 
to combine this with saving the desktop changes. When done the boot 
fails with :

failed to execute /sbin/modprobe binfmt-0000, errno = 5
kernel panic: No Init found. try passing init= option to kernel

Can you do both the deletes and desktop update in one step. The O'Reilly 
book does it in two.

I have also had hardware issues. My old laptop only works with external 
not kernel pcmcia so I can not get networking with Knoppix. It also 
hangs unless I boot  KNOPPIX noscsi .

I have a amd64 laptop. KNOPPIX (3.7) only runs with the 2.6 kernel. If I 
use this laptop X eventually hangs and locks up completely requiring a 
reboot.

I need a vpn which requires kernel-source the 2,6 kernel is 2.6.9 . The 
debian apt repositiory only has source through 2.6.8..

Of course several steps take a long time
Any suggestions