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Re: creating my own livecd



On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 09:37:44PM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> 
> I need to make my own livecd for a rescue cd and a demo cd.
> I am blind so want to include some accessibility: my own speakup kernel, 
> brltty and gnome-orca (and gnome, emacs mplayer firefox 3 and other 
> packages I might like like fetchmail and alpine etc.)
> 
> So what do I have to do to create my own livecd?
> It should be debian based and come up talking as soon as it boots: it just 
> needs to boot a certain kernel...
> Also it should launch a text-mode log in...
> So is this possible...
> Basically I just want to create my livecd and I can work on getting the 
> accessibnility stuff working...
> 
> So how do I do this?

For starters, http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/

The default is console that logins automatically to the user "user".
Though I modified mine to start a pdmenu-based menu in half of the
console menus instead.

Adding extra packages, changing boot parameters and such is quite easy.

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