Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3901 mails)

[Richard Atcheson <ratcheson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 01 January 2005 06:48 pm, Ted Hilts wrote:
> James
>
> I think that would work, BUT...
>
> Would it not be best if he used "dd" to create the image (iso) file?
> The bios would have to be set up to boot first from CD (probably already
> the case)?
> What about the MBR associated with the Live CD he would be building?
> Probably he should start with a boot floppy?
>
> I'm about to do the same thing.
>
> TED
>
> James Knott wrote:
> > Alex Angerhofer wrote:
> >> Hi List,
> >>
> >> can someone please give me a pointer to a how-to to generate a live CD?
> >> I am not interested in just using the live CDs that are out there, i.e.,
> >> SuSE's or knoppix or others. Rather I'd like to make my own, or
> >> preferably
> >> start with SuSE's live CD and modify it to add some software of my
> >> own to
> >> it.
> >
> > What happens, if you create an iso file of the CD, mount it read &
> > write, make your changes and then save and write the iso to a new CD?

in the suse admin guide there is a section on how to do what you want.  My 
version is found in /usr/share/docs/adminguide.

richard