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Re: [LUG] Help on Installation and Installation Guide

 

On Sunday 05 August 2007 13:51, Rob Beard wrote:
> Rob Beard wrote:
> > One thought which springs to mind is creating a custom live Ubuntu CD.
> > There is a package called reconstructor which allows you to make a
> > custom live CD.  Although I haven't had a play with it yet it may do the
> > job.  It does require the Ubuntu 7.04 Alternative ISO to be available
> > though.
> >
> > Rob
>
> Just trying to build a live CD now, looks like you need a copy of the
> live CD too.
>
> Rob

Yep, thats the usual case with these rebuilds. The standard Ubuntu disk is a 
live cd, so if you have one handy, you can use that.
I shall be giving it a bash later today - we can compare our results and pool 
ideas. It may be interesting to look at perhaps a live LUG cd at some point - 
the only problem will be choosing a distro I suspect. As Dave says, there is 
a similar thing for Fedora, one for Slackware (Slax) and most other distros 
which have a live cd can be rebuilt fairly easily.
I also play around with Linux on a USB key too. I have a Kubuntu live cd 
installed onto a 1gb usb key which can save setting changes for me - quite 
useful. I set up my wireless wpa stuff on it and it works fine. It even 
allows me to add/remove apps if I want to. Thinking about it, perhaps the 
same sort of technique may allow the creation of something similar on a cd/rw 
disk...  (adds idea to backlog of things to do!)

Mark

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