Live-CD development

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 05:29:36PM +0200, Joakim Berge wrote:

> Vel first I've not used isolinux like ubuntu does. I used Grub witch
> looks for initrd and linuxrc. Modified mkinitrd so it would copy the
> files i needed to be included in initrd. Wrote linuxrc from scratch,
> wasnt too much info on the web so this was a bit trikcy. linuxrc does
> all the things needed for init to take over. It also sets up unionfs
> to make all dirs writeable, (I fell in love with unionfs, its
> beautyful.) Before init takes over i remove everything in /etc/rc.S
> and makes a link to some knoppix script wich will configure your
> system. Now init runs just like on a normal system.

Why did you choose this approach over extending the existing Ubuntu live CD
infrastructure?

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 - mdz