Seems to me that there was a little distro called "finnix" that booted from cd & was a redhat - based distro. one of the google links says it's unsuported now, but there might be some good starting points if you are gonna try to pare down a redhat to fit in 700MB. On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Justin Haaheim wrote: > Hello all > I'm interested in creating my own Knoppix-like, minimalistic and > initially very simple Live (to be run from a cd) linux distro. My idea > was to use Debian as the base system. I'm more familiar with RedHat, > but I'd imagine that there's some copyright infringement problems if I > modify redhat and call it my own. > > Does anyone have any guidance or any resources you would like to provide > me? Any pointers, websites, documentation, etc. would be useful. I'm > specifically wondering, now, how I would configure the distro to run its > rw memory from ram. > > thanks > Justin > > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group 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 > -- LINUX, because rebooting is for adding hardware! www.linuxsnob.com <-- a little linux humor, and a very little support. _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Linux Users Group 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