"grml officially supports booting from usb-stick with all grml flavours. [...]

Prepare system

* Get the grml iso
* Mount the iso loopback (e.g. mount -o loop grml_small_0.4.iso /mnt/grml-iso)
* Make FAT16 filesystem on the usbstick (e.g. mkfs.vfat -F 16 -v /dev/sda1)
* Mount the usbstick (e.g. mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/external1)
* Copy everything to the usbstick (e.g. cp -r /mnt/grml-iso/* /mnt/external1).
* Move all files from /mnt/external1/boot/isolinux/ (mv /mnt/external1/boot/isolinux/* /mnt/external1) and the files linux26 and the minirt.gz (since grml1.1: initrd.gz!) from the directory named like the grml-flavour (/boot/grml, /boot/grmlmedium, /boot/grml64,...) to root of usb-stick
* Umount the usbstick and the grml-iso
* Run syslinux on the usbstick (e.g. syslinux /dev/sda1)
* Check if the usbstick has an valid mbr, else dd if=mbr.bin of=/dev/sda (mbr.bin is in the syslinux package, usually installed in /usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin)
* may need to set the bootable flag using parted (or fdisk)"

http://hg.grml.org/grml2usb/raw-file/tip/grml2usb

http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=usb

"A tool for building complete Linux filesystem images

Rootstrap was originally written to provide a facility for building filesystems for use with User-mode Linux, but can be useful in other applications as well.

It uses a modular set of shell scripts to create the filesystem image, install a base system, and customize it for a particular application. Currently, it only builds Debian systems, but the architecture is such that other base systems could be used instead.

Use of rootstrap does not require root access, or special privileges of any kind. This is because it builds the filesystem inside a User-mode Linux system running under an unprivileged uid.

Filesystem creation with rootstrap is quick and painless. With a local mirror and a single command, a fresh Debian filesystem can be created in about 3 minutes on relatively modest hardware."

http://packages.debian.org/source/rootstrap

"The Crocodile project aims to cross-compile Debian from scratch by using Scratchbox. Currently the essential packages of the Sarge distribution can be built for the ARM (little-endian) architecture. Support for the MIPS (big-endian) and CRIS architectures is under development."

http://www.scratchbox.org/wiki/Crocodile

"Moblin Image Creator is a tool aimed at making life easier for the mobile and embedded developer. The tool is designed to be extremely flexible with platform-specific knowledge isolated to a platform definition. Initial focus is on a new class of devices known as Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs), but the design of Moblin Image Creator is not MID-specific and talk is already underway to add new platform definitions to build consumer electronics stacks, such as TV set-top boxes.

Note: Previously, "Moblin Image Creator" was called "Project Builder", so you may see references to the old name in the documentation and source code.

There are three fundamental features that Moblin Image Creator provides:

* creating a platform-specific build-environment, or "project"
* creating a platform-specific target file-system
* providing user selectable "feature sets" (or fsets) to install bundles of packages that provide some high-level functionality

For more details on projects, targets, fsets, and images, click here."

http://moblin.org/projects/projects_image-creator.php

http://www.moblin.org/repos/tools/moblin-image-creator.git

"The liveusb-creator is a cross-platform tool for easily installing live operating systems on to USB flash drives.

Features

* Supports downloading various Fedora releases, including Fedora 9!
* Persistent overlay creation (only works with Fedora 9 right now). This lets you to allocate extra space on your USB stick, allowing you to save files and make modifications to your live operating system that will persist after you reboot. This essentially lets you carry your own personalized Fedora with you at all times
* SHA1 checksum verification of known releases, to ensure that you've downloaded the correct bits"

https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator

"The purpose of 'zdisk' is to put a kernel of your choice and a rescue system on one 1.44mb"

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/recovery/zdisk-2.15.co...

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/recovery/zdisk-2.15.ta...

"HackyRemaster is a script for remastering Puppy. It is not automated like AlienX's script, and it is not like Puppy Unleashed.

What this does is sets up an entire filesystem that you can go into and edit to your heart's content. It puts that filesystem inside a partition image (like pup001) so it can be saved on the harddrive even if you don't have linux partitions.

The script automates setting it up and putting it back togeather. It includes HackyPupBeGone, which makes removing the built in stuff easier. It also has a built in burning script that is mostly like Barry's BurnISO2CD script, but it also supports blanking CDRWs."

http://puppylinux.org/wikka/HackyRemaster

"I got the original idea for these scripts from the article

http://www.linux.com/print.pl?sid=06/03/16/1724219

which referenced now unavailable site/script at nautopia.net

I did secure the copy of the "script" by using archived copies of the site, and while I liked the idea much, it consisted of distros that had little interest for me. Also it required the lot of manual work, as the main level "script" was just a wrapper for mkisofs(1)."

http://mikukkon.googlepages.com/make_dvd_05.tgz

Projects found matching “livecd”

https://launchpad.net/projects/?text=livecd

"grml-live - build framework based on FAI for generating a grml and Debian based Linux Live system (CD/ISO) [...]

grml-live provides the build system for creating a grml and Debian based Linux Live-CD. The build system is based on FAI (Fully Automatic Installation). grml-live uses the "fai dirinstall" feature to generate a chroot system based on the class concept of FAI (see later sections for further details) and provides the framework to be able to generate a full-featured ISO. It does not use all the FAI features by default though and you don't have to know FAI to be able to use it.

The use of FAI gives you the flexibility to choose the packages you would like to include on your very own Linux Live-CD without having to deal with all the details of a build process."

http://grml.org/grml-live/

"This is webhelper of the Debian Live project.

Submit your parameters (working email address is required) to generate your very own Debian Live system."

http://live.debian.net/live-webhelper/

"mkmydsl is NOT myDslMaker. mkmydsl is done locally. This has several advantages over a website version of the same thing including:

1. "Try before you burn" You can download extensions and try them out before you commit to making an iso and burning.

2. "Construction Set" by downloading in parts, you truly have a construction set method. This makes it easier for a slow modem users to be able to take advantage by not having to download a large single mydsl.iso

3. "Privacy" By makeing the iso locally, you are not "sending" private information to a website only to have to download the results back. This is where the myconf.tar.gz comes into play. This is your "personal" and "private" configuration including passwords, etc.

4. "No double down" You already have the base iso and have proved that it works on your system, so you don't have to download it again only this time MUCH bigger. Also, you already have your local "proven" collection of extensions

5. "The Sky 's the Limit" I know of one user, Ke4nt, who uses the mkmydsl script to make DVD sized mydsl.iso. Imagine having to download DVD sized images."

http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Mkmydsl

Custom NimbleX 2 is now available for everybody. Even if now it is at Release Candidate stage this provides a much better way for generating a customised Free Linux OS based on NimbleX. The only requirements from the users are knowledge of English, a web browser (Firefox) and a CD for burning the ISO that was generated.

Features of Custom NimbleX 2:

* Absolutely no knowlege required for the custom OS
* > 150 software packages from where you can choose
* support for over a dusin most popular languages
* configure the sounds of your Custom NimbleX OS
* set the wallpaper from 36 pics or upload your own
* configure your password and the restricted user
* calculating the size of the ISO dinamically

To go straingt to Custom NimbleX 2 go to http://custom.nimblex.net

For more info about NimbleX you can visit http://nimblex.net

"Automated Linux From Scratch (ALFS) is a project that creates the generic framework for an extendable system builder and package installer.

After having gone through the LFS and BLFS books more than 2 or 3 times, you will quickly appreciate the ability to automate the task of compiling the software you want for your systems.

The goal of ALFS is to automate the process of creating an LFS system. It seeks to make the process of building LFS easier and more efficient while still providing flexibility by granting the user total control and insight into the compilation and management of his LFS build."

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/alfs/

"live-initramfs is a fork from Casper by Canonical. live-initramfs is used for to build an initramfs suited to boot live systems. [...]

live-initramfs is a hook for the initramfs-tools, used to generate a initramfs capable to boot live systems, such as those created by live-helper(7). This includes the Debian Live isos, netboot tarballs, and usb stick images.

At boot time it will look for a (read-only) media containing a "/live" directory where a root filesystems (often a compressed filesystem image like squashfs) is stored. If found, it will create a writable environ‐ ment, using unionfs, for Debian like systems to boot from."

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/live-initramfs

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/live-initramfs-manpage