Linux Live Kit Improved. This set of scripts will help you to build your own Live Kit distro. This project is based on the original Linux Live Kit. NOTE: Make sure to extract and use it on a POSIX-compatible filesystem, since it creates some (sym)links and such. Some information you want to know: Make sure to extract and use it on a POSIX-compatible filesystem, since it will create symlinks and such. + Store Linux Live Kit in a directory which is not going to be included in your live distro, else it would be copied to it. Best practice is to make a directory such as /tmp/a and put all the files there. NOTE: Make sure to extract and use it on a POSIX-compatible filesystem, since it will create symlinks and such. + Before you start building your Kit, edit the ./.config file Most importantly change the LIVEKITNAME variable. + Make sure you are pointing to the right kernel. If in doubt, change the path in ./.config Your kernel must support squashfs and aufs, or else you will get an error both while building, and when you actually boot the Live Kit. PROTIP: Debian Jessie's kernel has both supported out-of-the-box. You might consider using Debian Jessie as a base, but it's not required. + You may also wish to replace boot background in ./bootfiles/bootlogo.png and edit and/or tweak syslinux.cfg to fit your needs. NOTE: When editing the configuration file, make sure to keep all paths pointing to /boot/, since it will be replaced to /LIVEKITNAME/boot/ during the build session. + Linux Live Kit comes with precompiled static binaries in ./initramfs directory. Those may be outdated but will work. You may replace them by your own statically linked binaries, if you know how to compile them. + If you want to boot your Live Kit from a CD, you need to recompile syslinux.bin/isolinux.bin else it won't be able to boot your Live Kit from directory "/LIVEKITNAME". There is a script prepared for you which will handle all of the building. Simply go to directory ./tools/ and run update-isolinux.bin, it will rebuild ./bootfiles/isolinux.bin automatically by downloading SysLinux sources, patching them using your actual LIVEKITNAME and recompiling. This step is not needed if you plan only need the ZIP archive version. + If you have tmpfs mounted on /tmp, make sure you have enough (or maybe even a lot of) RAM, since Live Kit will store lots of data to the target. If you don't have enough (or even went out of) RAM, make sure that /tmp is a regular on-disk directory. + When you're ready run the ./build script to create your Live Kit - it will create ISO and ZIP files for you in /tmp - make sure you have enough free space in /tmp to handle it + You will need the following packages to be installed: - squashfs-tools - genisoimage or mkisofs - zip