[Grml] remastering a live cd, Can someone explain it to me?
Doug Smith
bdsmith at oralux.org
Tue Feb 13 20:46:09 CET 2007
I knownow this is a real strange one. I am, however, feeling more and
more comfortable on this list, and I thought it might be possible to
understand something that I have wondered about for a couple of
years.
What I want to know is how do you actually make a live cd? What I
mean is this, and I will explain what I mean in more detail.
Ok, starting from a running grml system on your development machine,
all the programs are on there, the bugs are out, to the best of your
knowledge, and you are ready to make a new release. What is done to
get from that to the iso file system with its large compressed file
system, and the other files that are with it.
I know how to make an iso-9660 file system, at least, well enough to
make a cd, but how do you make the thing bootable? How does the
technology work that is used to compress the software and
documentation down? How does the thing know which parts of this
large file to use when accessing programs?
Why I wonder this is, I like to add in a few packages that I use. I
would like to have my own disk with config files, new packages and
more so that I can just set up on any machine and rock and roll.
If you don't have the time to explain this to me in full detail, do
you know of a good reference where I can just read about it and get
all the detæils? I really appreciate this, because the person who
tried to explain this to me before, didn't put on a lievl where I
could understand it.
I am sorry to come on here with such strange questions, but I hope
there is a simply-understood answer for this one.
Thank you.
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