LiveDistro

"I have been enjoying my Ubuntu 7.10 Live Persistent USB for many months now. I use it to quickly and easily install Ubuntu on desktops, we also sell them at TheLinuxStore.ca. But it seems persistence was broken in 8.04. Turns out to be a simply mistake, but there are many steps to fix it. I have seen many people asking about this so I thought I would write a how to. This post will start from the beginning and explain how to make an Ubuntu 8.04 Bootable Live USB from scratch.

Assumptions:
You have at least a 1GB USB thumb drive
You have the ubuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso file handy
You are running Ubuntu on your desktop

Reconstructing the Ubuntu Live CD for USB

Step One - Make a directory to store the restructured CD [...]"

http://www.ryancloke.com/ubuntu-804-hardy-heron-live-usb-how-to/

"Here we describe how you make a Polippix, update it, and change it, so that you can make a new version.

This guide assumes that you are running a Debian-based Linux distribution (e.g. Debian, Ubuntu, Kubuntu). If you are running a non-Debian-based distribution (e.g. Red Hat, Mandriva, Gentoo, Slackware, Novell/Suse), especially the apt-get commands must be replaced by the equivalent commands in that distribution.

Our svn-repository is incremental. We don't have the entire polippix CD. We just have the files that are necessary to change a Kubuntu to a Polippix or update an older Polippix. Please notice, that you must have about 4 GB of free space."

http://polippix.org/index.php?wiki=MakeYourOwnPolippix

"You'll need mkisofs and cdrecord from cdrtools package, hex editor (I use hexedit from FreeBSD ports collection) and maybe DOS utility makebt. I suggest you'll burn CD-RW disk for first time you make multiboot CD.

I wouldn't describe technical information about bootable ISO structure, I'll just tell you what you should do to make CD multibootable."

http://lich.phys.spbu.ru/kab00m/projects/cdboot.eng.html

"I am just going to walk you through from a blank usb pendrive installation just to help me keep track on this.

Here is what you need:

1. the ability to boot to a livedistro with grub in it, for example puppylinux, ubuntu, etc.

2. a usb pendrive that you want to make bootable

Steps:

1. First, after downloading zenwalk iso [...]"

http://support.zenwalk.org/viewtopic.php?p=83025#p83025

"The way i would do it is a bit... odd, it's based on what i know." [...]

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=16204

"It can be done. I use RIP linux as the host system because that has a grub patch which allows one to have a grub menu on the cdrom. To see how the entries in the grub menu should look for each distro, look in the file called isolinux.cfg .

I also have a bunch of extra tools in the images directory. Instead of putting every one of these in the menu, I can just edit the boot entry. It helps if you know how to edit the grub menu at boot up time."

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/several-distro-in-one-cd..-224186/

"The T2 project is a set of Bash scripts to compile a complete Linux distro from source packages.
Puppy Linux is the tiniest and cutest and easiest and the best little Linux distro there is.
Put the two together, and we have Puppy From Scratch!

If you want to create your own custom version of Puppy, you can do it in three different ways:

1. Puppy Remaster-CD script
2. Puppy Unleashed
3. Puppy-from-scratch"

http://www.puppylinux.com/pfs/

"This article is a step by step guide explaining how to add OpenVZ functionality to Centos 4.4 LiveCD. As a result, you will have a LiveCD, that can boot in various OpenVZ kernels (rhel4-2.6.9, 2.6.18, rhel5-2.6.18, 2.6.20) and in original CentOS kernel also. After booting from the CD, you will be able to create VEs, start them, enter them - i.e. perform common OpenVZ activity."

http://wiki.openvz.org/Creating_OpenVZ_LiveCD_based_on_Centos_4.4

"The idea of creating OpenVZ LiveCD for a long time was in the air. Such CD would be useful for various demonstrations, test-drives and some other purposes. Additionally we received reports that some problems persist in creating LiveCD based on OpenVZ kernel. In order to eliminate these problems and give users the ability to use OpenVZ technology in LiveCD manner we decided to create it. This article describes how I was doing about it."

http://wiki.openvz.org/Creating_OpenVZ_LiveCD

"So you want your own [Slackware] distro . . .

Not as difficult as you might think. In fact, if what you are after can be based upon Absolute, making an iso of your very own can be easlily done in a matter of minutes.

We'll begin with a little Quick-Start guide, then get into more personalized convolutions later. [Along with details about what you can safely take out, what packages contain what settings, etc.]"

http://www.pcbypaul.com/absolute/help/rollyourown.html