[TriLUG] JOB? - create customized distro

[William Sutton]

Perhaps I fail to understand your requirements but someone at rPath 
created a livecd for Cristobal Palmer.

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William Sutton


On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Christopher L Merrill wrote:

> Ok, so I've pursued rPath, and after speaking with them, it's clear they
> don't provide quite what we need.  While they _can_ provide a customized
> distro, they can _not_ provide a customized BOOTABLE distro (a la Knoppix).
> 
> So I come back to seek the WOTL again:
> 
> Part of our application is a Java app with a command-line interface that
> can run on Linux. The installer is really a glorified unzip process to
> lay down the JVM and our software.  What we are looking for is a
> bootable linux disk with our software on it. I'm thinking it would
> boot into single-user mode and then start our software - so that the user
> can see the command-line output from our application (and interact with
> it, when necessary).  It could be pretty stripped-down compared to knoppix,
> since there is no need for X or any GUI apps.
> 
> If you know of anyone who has the experience and/or the inclination to do
> this kind of work for us, we'd like to get in contact with them!
> Or if you know of a group/forum where this question is better suited, that
> would be great, too.
> 
> TIA,
> Chris
> 
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