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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. http://linux-live.org

Here's what you need to do:

NOTE: Make sure to extract and use it on a POSIX-compatible filesystem,

  since it creates some (sym)links and such.

Here's you what you need to watch out before building:

  • 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.

  • Before you start building your Kit, edit the ./.config file Most importantly change the LIVEKITNAME variable.

  • Make sure your kernel is in /boot/vmlinuz or change the path in ./.config Your kernel must support squashfs and aufs. Debian Jessie's kernel has both supported out-of-the-box.

  • You may also wish to replace boot background in ./bootfiles/bootlogo.png, and reorganize syslinux.cfg to fit your needs.

NOTE:

When editing the .cfg 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 Those may be outdated but will work.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 /tmp is a regular on-disk directory.

  • When done, 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