On Saturday 21 October 2006 19:44, krishnakant Mane wrote:
On 21/10/06, jtd jtd@mtnl.net.in wrote:
So u are not exactly remastering knoppix. U will have to use gentoo to create a distro from source. Or Linux from scratch. Then tack on cloopfs. Then compress everything to a blob, add the bootloader and burn it to the usb.
why not knoppix?
Knoppix is a debian derivative and will haev a lot of dependencies not strictly neccessary for your task. U would therfore have to use debian fromscratch or lfs or some such. Then use the tricks used by knoppix, which is compression and decompression on the fly via cloopfs, ramdisk etc.
I am currently using oralux, which is a modified version of knoppix. it is a talking live cd. it not just comes up talking when it boots, but also gives me a menu which includes items like we get on a start menu, like the linkx browser, file browser, dropping to a shell etc. this comes up instead of bash. So I believe there must be some thing that can be done with knoppix.
Getting some set of apps to run automagically after boot is just a matter of putting scripts in /etc/init.d and links in /etc/rc2.d. very simple.