Creating a LiveCD from scratch

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Tue Aug 9 13:16:03 CDT 2005


On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 10:14:40AM +0200, Maarten de Boer wrote:

> It seems my previous thread got into a dead end, so I'd like to explain
> a bit more what I'm trying to do, and why.
> 
> I am in the process of creating a LiveCD for the ICMC2005 (International
> Computer Music Conference). During the conference, several workshop will
> be given, among which "Audio Production with Free Software Tools". (For
> an abstract, see:  http://www.icmc2005.org/index.php?selectedPage=120 ) 
> 
> The LiveCD will be used during this workshop, and probably some of the
> other workshops as well, so it will include the featured audio
> applications. For this, a 'simple' customization of the Ubuntu LiveCD
> would be sufficient. But to properly run "professional" audio
> applications (with low latency), a customized kernel (with the
> realtime-preempt patch) is required as well - or at at least highly
> desireable.
> 
> All participants in the workshop would be given a copy of the LiveCD
> (between 400-500), and obviously this is a good way to get a lot
> of people in contact with Ubuntu and Linux.
> 
> I have been looking for documentation, but apart from the Customization
> wiki page, and the debian-installer documentation, I did not find much.
> I would be very much interested in more detailed documentation of the
> LiveCD creation process of the original LiveCD.

Replacing the kernel on the live CD is unfortunately non-trivial; it
involves building new kernel udebs for use during the initialization
process.  If you patch the existing Ubuntu kernel and use that to build new
packages, you will have all the pieces that you need.

-- 
 - mdz



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