hey -devel, so i'm having quite the love affair with this knoppix cd. in the past month i've used it as a rescue cd more times than i can remember--like bringing a laptop back to life after making a devfs kernel and forgetting to install devfsd (oops)... anyway, i'm brought to wonder if there is any software out there (and if any of it is debian-packaged) for making your own live-on-cd debian mini-distros. i think it'd be sweet to have a program that would take a file with list of packages, and install them + dependencies + base onto a bootable cd. the automagic configuration that knoppix has would be nice too. i've done a bit of debian-based searching, and haven't found anything on knoppix other than an lg-issue87 article. i've also found a package called "bootcd" which does very close to what i'm thinking of, only it can't be configured to make an iso out of anything other than the current machine's configuration, which means it won't work on machines with much more than 650MB installations. it does however have a kickstart-like program with it for installing the cd onto harddisk, which is definitely a cool feature does anyone know of other similar efforts in this vein? if this is a work in progress for anyone i'd be interested in helping out in some way. regards sean
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