<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Ello --<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>If you don't mind building an entire distro from scratch. <A href="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org">www.linuxfromscratch.org</A> is a very well documented look at a rather complete and customized distribution. We've taken that base and converted it to a custom linux distro, zinux.cynicbytrade.com for something similar to what you've described.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Most people use ISO linux, but you can even use grub as the CD boot loader and you just need to make sure your start up scripts account for most of the filesystem being read only and create a writable /var </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I'm also certain that there are 100000 different knoppix variants around that might be more customizable.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>--Dave</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jan 30, 2007, at 9:42 AM, Matt wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV class="Section1"><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Does anyone have any clue how to build them?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </SPAN>I’ve got a project that I’m working on, and while I’m decent at using *nix (FreeBSD right now) I’m not well enough versed to really know how to go about making a _<I><SPAN style="font-style:italic">very</SPAN></I>_ custom <SPAN class="SpellE">distro</SPAN> CD.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </SPAN>Does anyone have any good resources for making CD’s, or would anyone have time to help a *nix newbie figure this out?<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial"><O:P> </O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">-Matt Breitbach<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P> </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Cialug mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:Cialug@cialug.org">Cialug@cialug.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug">http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>