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. Some information you want to know: + 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. The best practice is to make a directory such as for example: '/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 that might not be compatible in for example: FAT and such other filesystems. + Before you start building your Kit, please consider editing the ./.config file, and tweak it to suit your needs. 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: On most Linux distro-s, the kernel is in /vmlinuz, a symlink to /boot/vmlinuz-* or /boot/vmlinux-* PROTIP #2: 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 consider to replace boot background in bootfiles/bootpic.png and edit syslinux.cfg to suit 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 Those may be outdated but will work.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 isolinux.bin-update, 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 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. + If you want to include your own bundules, the 'include_bund/' directory might come in handy! Just make sure that the file extension matches with your chosen .BEXT extension. You will need to have the following packages installed: - squashfs-tools - genisoimage and/or mkisofs - zip When you're ready, run the ./build script to build your Live Kit Distro. The script will: - Build both ISO and ZIP files for you in /tmp - Do all the hard work for you. - Will automatically check for errors. - Will warn you if you don't have the correct packages.