How to create a bootable/live CD of installed linux OS - Portable
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i am new bie to linux , i have installed two OS(linux) on different
partitions , i customize one according to my needs ,now i want to make
bootable/live CD of my customized OS with the help of base ...
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How to create a bootable/live CD of installed linux OS
hello,
i am new bie to linux , i have installed two OS(linux) on different
partitions , i customize one according to my needs ,now i want to make
bootable/live CD of my customized OS with the help of base OS. I
searced many algo's but none of them is clear to me , bootloader of my
new OS is GRUB ,i try with image of bootable floppy but all in vain,
now i create initial ramdisk image of 1.3MB ,now i am not able to
create image of floppy bcz of size(kernel image+ initd).
i am trying this from last 1 month . so plz help me in this.
thanx in advance
Regards:
Narendra
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Re: How to create a bootable/live CD of installed linux OS
Narendra wrote:
> i am new bie to linux , i have installed two OS(linux) on different
> partitions , i customize one according to my needs ,now i want to make
> bootable/live CD of my customized OS with the help of base OS. I
> searced many algo's but none of them is clear to me , bootloader of my
> new OS is GRUB ,i try with image of bootable floppy but all in vain,
> now i create initial ramdisk image of 1.3MB ,now i am not able to
> create image of floppy bcz of size(kernel image+ initd).
> i am trying this from last 1 month . so plz help me in this.
I'm not sure if this is your question,
but you can make a CD to boot your system with
"mkbootdisk --iso --device whatever.iso 2.6.10"
substituting the kernel you are using (as given eg by "uname -a")
for 2.6.10 .
Then burn whatever.iso as a CD.
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Re: How to create a bootable/live CD of installed linux OS
Narendra wrote:
> hello,
> i am new bie to linux , i have installed two OS(linux) on different
> partitions , i customize one according to my needs ,now i want to make
> bootable/live CD of my customized OS with the help of base OS. I
> searced many algo's but none of them is clear to me , bootloader of my
> new OS is GRUB ,i try with image of bootable floppy but all in vain,
> now i create initial ramdisk image of 1.3MB ,now i am not able to
> create image of floppy bcz of size(kernel image+ initd).
> i am trying this from last 1 month . so plz help me in this.
> thanx in advance
> Regards:
> Narendra
Try http://slax.linux-live.org/