dyingsun
March 23rd, 2010, 11:46 AM
Hi ppl,
I've been poking around trying to figure out how to customise a live CD/DVD and configure it to do all its write operations on a USB stick. I've found sites that walk you through the customisation process, but I can't find anything about how to configure them to suit my needs.
Basically I need a lightweight live CD (or DVD, but CD would be preferable). It needs to have the packages I require, mostly programming tools, Apache/MySQL/PHP, Netbeans, Kate, openOffice, at least 2 browsers, an email client, a chat client such as Pidgin, ncftp, GiMP and other useful things. However, I need /home/damien to be on a USB stick, along with any config files for the applications, and also the webroot.
Things that would be nice, but not essential, are music players with all codecs, a newsreader, softphone client, etc.
Doesn't have to be Ubuntu, though I would prefer it.
I gather its possible to do all this on a USB stick alone, but most of the machines i encounter don't support USB booting. It would save me a lot of time and hassle if I had a portable development environment, running from a CD and writing to a USB stick. Is this actually possible? Can somebody point me to some info that would help? I have tried googling but its not very effective when you're not sure exactly what you're searching for!
Thanks in advance
Damien
I've been poking around trying to figure out how to customise a live CD/DVD and configure it to do all its write operations on a USB stick. I've found sites that walk you through the customisation process, but I can't find anything about how to configure them to suit my needs.
Basically I need a lightweight live CD (or DVD, but CD would be preferable). It needs to have the packages I require, mostly programming tools, Apache/MySQL/PHP, Netbeans, Kate, openOffice, at least 2 browsers, an email client, a chat client such as Pidgin, ncftp, GiMP and other useful things. However, I need /home/damien to be on a USB stick, along with any config files for the applications, and also the webroot.
Things that would be nice, but not essential, are music players with all codecs, a newsreader, softphone client, etc.
Doesn't have to be Ubuntu, though I would prefer it.
I gather its possible to do all this on a USB stick alone, but most of the machines i encounter don't support USB booting. It would save me a lot of time and hassle if I had a portable development environment, running from a CD and writing to a USB stick. Is this actually possible? Can somebody point me to some info that would help? I have tried googling but its not very effective when you're not sure exactly what you're searching for!
Thanks in advance
Damien