custom live cd

[lutz kaiser]

Hi,
i 've done sucessfully a simular thing.
I chose "remastersys" to do so.

I use debian lenny, installed all what i need (brltty ....
then as root
remastersys backup
waiting...

And it worked!

greatings
Lutz
p.s "backup" is importand - 2dist" doesn't copy the Homedir



On 05.04.2009 23:34, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to make myself a custom live cd and usb image so I can: take
> my own linux anywhere. Have accessibility on every machine, and use and
> carry the software I want, and leave the stuff I don't want. I will
> probably release this image if I can get it to work! So could someone
> please help me. Here is what I did.
>
> I installed live-helper and did:
> cd /tmp
> mkdir livecd
> cd livecd
> sudo lh_config -a i386 -d lenny --categories main contrib non-free -p gnome --packages audacity gnome-orca brltty rhythmbox --packages-lists /home/daniel/stuff/packages.list
> cd ~
> cp file1 file2 file3... /tmp/livecd/config/includes/home/user
> (I just created home/user, includes was already there from lh_config)
> Then:
> sudo lh_build
>
> It took a while and did some things, installed lots of packages and then
> created a binary.iso file.
> It was 170 mb in size, so I put it on a cd. When I boot the cd I have
> barely anything on it. No gnome, no brltty, no orca, no emacs no
> nothing. So what am I doing wrong? My files from includes/home/user
> don't even appear when I type ls -a in the livecd...
> In my packages.list file I have lines such as:
> emacs install
>
> So what am I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Daniel.
>
>
>
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viele Grüße
Lutz