"The following sequence of commands will create a basic USB/HDD image containing just the Debian standard system without X.org. It is suitable for booting from USB sticks, hard drives and various other portable storage devices."

http://alioth.debian.org/~lamby-guest/live-manual/html/basics....

"The information in this article is specific to Ultima Linux 8.4, and may not be valid for other versions.

Starting with Ultima Linux 8.4, it is possible to create a LiveUSB installation, where the entire Ultima Linux system boots from a USB flash drive (similar to how the LiveCD works). However, LiveUSB creation is still a slightly complex process, hence the need for this page."

http://www.ultimalinux.com/wiki/LiveUSB

"Other than Ubuntu- and Fedora-type systems, the initrd on SUSE-type live CDs is not suitable for booting from USB. This page shows how to change the initrd so that booting the live CD image becomes possible from USB stick."

http://klik.atekon.de/wiki/index.php/CustomizeSUSELive

"A live CD is a great way to allow people to learn about interactive websites of the sort built using Drupal, Joomla!, etc. This guide explains how to build a Debian Live CD using LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP). The process has been tested for Drupal using Lenny (Testing)."

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/HowTo/LAMP

This is an howto create your own ubuntu live cd with firebird/ubuntu and custom applications ,in guide ubuntu variation used was Xubuntu (is smaller and can be customized easier ) but it works for any hardy release

"How to make a USB flash drive function as a Ubuntu (or Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu) Live CD. The base file system is ext3, it boots using extlinux and supports the same hardware as the Live CD. Instructions on how to update the Live CD and modify it's contents are also given. For the entire document /dev/sda is the USB device.

Booting from a USB device is ofter faster than from CD and USB drives are easier to carry. You should know why you want and or need this. We used Kubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn as our image for booting and a Gentoo system for building on."

http://edoceo.com/liber/ubuntu-live-usb

"This is another method to create a live install of BackTrack 3 on your HD. The need for this was that an install of BT was required for a machine with only 4gb of disk space and that it also needed to be dual booted with another linux distro from grub. This is a very simple live install with no persistancy. it has been done on an eeepc."

http://backtrack.offensive-security.com/index.php/Howto (scroll down)

"NOTE: This procedure works on the IRC Addict Pre-Release BT2 and the final release, but it does not work on sidc and earlier versions

1. Open the backtrack.iso file:

Option 1. In Windows, use a program such as isobuster
Option 2. In Backtrack, mount the iso
(mount -o loop -t iso9660 yourcd.iso /mnt/iso)
Option 3. In OSX, mount the iso

2. Extract and copy the /boot and /BT folders from the iso to the USB flash stick

3. Make the USB Stick bootable: "

http://backtrack.offensive-security.com/index.php/Howto:USB_Stick

"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/

"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

"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

"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/

"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

"With http based filesystem and virtualization, you can boot any livecd image you want strait from the mirror. You don't have to wait for those 700MB (or more in case of a LiveDVD), and you don't have to burn the anything. Simply mount the mirror and launch your favourite vitualization engine!"

http://vamosproject.org/InternetBoot

"I want to have a business card size CD with which I could boot multiple floppy images (I don't want to carry floppies with me because of their size, fragility, and lack of reliability). I'm posting this because someone might find it useful. Basically I want a CD that has: [...]

* Ghost boot disks
* Mini (floppy) Linux distribution for recovery and other purposes.
* DSL and Puppy floppy images that load DSL or Puppy from USB flash drive (in case the BIOS of the computer does not support USB booting directly)."

http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php/Create_a_multiboot_CD_%...