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

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 Those may be outdated but will work.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.