Live-CD development

[Joakim Berge]

We thought the schoolproject would be to easy as it was, so we chose
to digg a bit deeper and do the hole startup routine ourselves. And we
wanted unionfs support, and to my knowledge only Knoppix 3.8(Cebit)
had it at that time. We kinda wanted to reinvent the wheel and make it
rounder.

On 6/30/05, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 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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