custom livecd

[Carl Karsten]

Not sure this is the best place to post this, so if someone knows
better, tell me where to go.

I have followed:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomization
and was able to remove openoffice, add my PPA, install some apps and
make a CD that works.  yay.

Now I want to do some more things:

1) add a shortcut to gnome-terminal to the launcher panel
2) add a shortcut to my app on the desktop.
3) apt-get dist-upgrade  - seems like a good idea, but on the
unaltered  ubuntu-9.04-desktop-i386.iso it adds 150mb to the .iso,
even after apt-get clean.
4) there are a bunch more apps I want to add, but there isn't room
even without the dist-upgrade and removing OpenOffice.  I am hoping
there are some things I can remove to free up a big chunk.  like I
don't need the installer, but guessing that isn't much of a chunk.
don't need docs, don't need printer drivers... wondering how I can see
what takes up what space.  I know this isn't that simple, just
wondering what my options are.

5) boot options to pick between master and slave:

default live
label live
  menu label DVswitch (alone or master) on Ubuntu - no change to your computer
  kernel /casper/vmlinuz
  append  file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper
initrd=/casper/initrd.gz quiet splash  --

label live-slave
  menu label DVswitch slave (no GUI)
  kernel /casper/vmlinuz
  append  file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper
initrd=/casper/initrd.gz text  --

and some zeroconf magic or something so that each box gets a unique IP
and hostname=master/slave.  extra credit for
master/slave1/slave2/slaveN... but I can live without multiple slave
boxes.

-- 
Carl K