Live Linux CDs: Building and Customizing Bootables (Negus Live Linux Series)

Christopher Negus9780132432740, 0-13-243274-9

Dream the perfect computer system, then build it to run on a Linux live CD!A Linux live CD is more tham just a Linux system you can carry around. Start with a live CD that has all your favorite applications. Include and play photo slideshows, presentations, Web content, and music collections. Incorporate your own designs, colors, and images to appear everywhere from the boot prompt to the desktop.When you are done, you have a perfectly customized CD or DVD that can run on almost any PC that you can reboot.

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Table of contents :
Live Linux CDs……Page 1
Contents……Page 8
Acknowledgments……Page 18
About the Author……Page 20
Introduction……Page 22
PART I: Beginning with Bootable Live Linuxes……Page 26
Understanding Live Linux CDs……Page 28
Running a Live Linux CD……Page 29
Overcoming the First Hurdles to Linux……Page 30
Using Different Types of Live CDs……Page 31
Selecting Bootable Media……Page 39
Building a Live Linux CD……Page 42
Trying Other Live CDs……Page 51
Learning about Live CDs……Page 52
Burning and Fancying Up Your Live CD……Page 56
Summary……Page 57
Before Booting a Live CD……Page 58
Starting from the DVD……Page 60
Running a Desktop Live CD (Knoppix)……Page 61
Running a Gaming Live CD……Page 69
Running a Multimedia Live CD (MoviX and Dynebolic)……Page 79
Running a Security Live CD (BackTrack)……Page 87
Getting a Live CD Working Just Right……Page 89
Summary……Page 91
CHAPTER 3 Customizing a Live CD……Page 94
Customizing a Live CD……Page 95
Keeping Your Customized Files and Settings……Page 112
Booting with Customized Files and Settings……Page 117
Saving and Using Custom Settings on Other Live CDs……Page 118
Adding Damn Small Linux to a USB Flash Drive……Page 122
Summary……Page 125
PART II: Creating a Custom Bootable Linux……Page 126
CHAPTER 4 Understanding How Live Linux CDs Work……Page 128
Understanding the Boot Process……Page 129
From BIOS to Boot Loader……Page 131
Booting the Live Linux System……Page 138
Understanding the Running Live Linux System……Page 146
Summary……Page 153
CHAPTER 5 Looking Inside Live CD Components……Page 154
Using Boot Loaders in Live CDs……Page 155
Understanding File Systems for Live CDs……Page 174
Choosing an Approach to Creating Your Own Live CD……Page 178
Summary……Page 184
CHAPTER 6 Building a Custom Knoppix Live CD……Page 186
Understanding Knoppix Remastering……Page 187
Choosing a Knoppix Distribution to Customize……Page 188
Setting Up the Build Machine……Page 189
Remastering Knoppix……Page 190
Trying Other Knoppix Remastering Techniques……Page 210
Summary……Page 213
CHAPTER 7 Building a Basic Fedora Live CD……Page 214
Understanding How to Build a Fedora Live CD……Page 215
Installing Fedora Core……Page 217
Installing Kadischi Tools……Page 218
Setting Up the Fedora Core Repository……Page 219
Trying a Test Build……Page 224
Burn the Image to CD or DVD……Page 228
Customizing a Fedora Live CD……Page 229
Summary……Page 243
CHAPTER 8 Building a Basic Gentoo Live CD……Page 244
About Gentoo Linux……Page 245
Setting Up to Build a Gentoo Live CD……Page 246
Installing Gentoo……Page 247
Creating the Gentoo Live CD Remastering Environment……Page 251
Working in the chroot Environment……Page 252
Testing the Live CD Image……Page 260
Creating a Gentoo Live CD with Catalyst……Page 261
Summary……Page 270
PART III: Making a Specialized Bootable Linux……Page 272
CHAPTER 9 Customizing a Security Live Linux CD……Page 274
Exploring Security Live CDs……Page 275
Running Security Tools……Page 285
Adding Software to a BackTrack Live CD……Page 303
Summary……Page 304
CHAPTER 10 Customizing a Presentation Live Linux CD……Page 306
Trying Out the PuppetiX Presentation Live CD……Page 307
Remastering a Presentation Live CD……Page 312
Summary……Page 321
CHAPTER 11 Customizing a Gaming Live Linux CD……Page 322
Finding Linux Gaming Live CDs……Page 324
Running the Linux Live Game Project Live CD……Page 328
Commercial Games Licenses……Page 341
Creating a Fedora Gaming Live CD……Page 342
Summary……Page 344
CHAPTER 12 Customizing a Multimedia Live Linux CD……Page 346
Understanding Multimedia Copyright and Patent Issues……Page 347
Multimedia Player Live CD……Page 350
Creating a Multimedia Production Live CD……Page 359
Summary……Page 365
Choosing a Firewall Computer and Live CD……Page 366
Getting Devil Linux……Page 368
Booting the Devil Linux Live CD……Page 369
Logging In and Setting Up Devil Linux……Page 370
Setting Up Firewall Rules……Page 375
Creating a New CD……Page 376
Other Firewall Distros……Page 377
Summary……Page 378
What’s a Cluster?……Page 380
ParallelKnoppix……Page 382
Managing Nodes and Starting Your Cluster……Page 387
Remastering ParallelKnoppix……Page 390
Summary……Page 393
PART IV: Appendices……Page 394
APPENDIX A: On the DVD……Page 396
Booting Live CDs From the DVD……Page 397
Using Live CD ISOs from the DVD……Page 398
APPENDIX B: Building, Testing, and Burning ISOs……Page 404
Building an ISO Image with mkisofs……Page 405
Testing an ISO Image with QEMU……Page 409
Burning ISO Images with cdrecord or K3b……Page 415
A……Page 422
B……Page 423
C……Page 425
D……Page 430
E……Page 431
F……Page 432
G……Page 433
H……Page 436
I……Page 437
J-K……Page 438
L……Page 440
M……Page 441
N……Page 442
P……Page 443
R……Page 445
S……Page 446
V……Page 449
W……Page 450
Y-Z……Page 451