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Old 06-06-2006
adding custom apps

Hey all,

Just wondering if someone will be able to point me in the right direction for what I'm after.

I have a small distro of Live Linux (CD) and what I want to do is add some custom apps into the CD which I could use at work.

Any idea's where I would start for information on how I can do this???
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Old 06-07-2006
I've done this. You'll have to do it the hard way -- look real close to figure out what they're doing and splay it all out -- cramfs filesystems decompressed into filesystems and all -- add what you want, then put it all back together.

The tricky part will be figuring out what options they used to make the bootable CD. The kernels and such will be outside the cramfs filesystem -- they have to be. The options for mine ended up looking like:
Code:
mkisofs -J -R -l -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/isolinux.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table srcdir/ > output.iso

Where isolinux/isolinux.bin etc aren't literal paths but paths relative to the CD filesystem.
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