Search for the linux from scratch project. I believe it's just a howto on how to roll your own. > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Clark [mailto:peter-clark at bethel.edu] > Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 2:17 PM > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] distro makin' fool > > > 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 _______________________________________________ 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