On Friday 15 August 2003 01:24 pm, Lansing, Dan wrote: > As all newbs do at some point I would like to come up with my own distro to > call my own..... What kinds of skillz are needed for this? I'm sure some > amount of scripting is needed but would I need to know any programming to > modify an existing distro to make it in my own image? Right now I am > working with slackware cuz it's the bomb, and I am mainly adding and > subtracting packages and editing the tag files to show these changes during > install . I would like to make more changes though to make it more > personalized. Not sure what more I need to do or where on the disk to > change it so all comments, flames or actual help is welcome My recommendation would be to take a look at Knoppix. If you don't know, Knoppix is a distro meant to be run from a CD. Klaus Knopper, the chief developer, manages to squeeze 1.7 GB onto a 700 MB iso, so it comes with almost everything you could possibly want. While it is primarily meant to be run from CD, it includes an install script. The steps to remastering Knoppix are well documented in the forums (http://www.knoppix.net/forum/) and any questions you might possibly have are probably already answered on the mailing list (http://mailman.linuxtag.org/pipermail/debian-knoppix/). And, since Knoppix is based on Debian (some use it to set up a Debian system, rather than deal with Debian's seven-year-old installer), you can just apt-get any programs that aren't included on Knoppix. Summary: with Knoppix, you can have *both* a customized bootable CD distro *and* a customized installable distro, with all the resources of Debian and its 10,000 packages. It doesn't get any better than that. Have fun! :Peter -- Oh what a tangled web they weave who try a new word to conceive! _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list