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Tip: Creating a custom live CD with Slax |
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Thursday, 16 June 2005 |
Live CDs can be useful for testing an operating system or performing special operations -- assuming there's a live CD distro that does what you need. Unfortunately, if you are running a special application, especially one you wrote yourself, no live CD will be tailored exactly to your needs. But creating you own live CD is easier than you might think, with Slax and its easy customization utility MySlax Creator.
For our live CD, we wanted a compact Linux OS with a graphical interface that would run on low-end hardware (typically a Pentium II with 64MB RAM and 4MB video card). We needed to have Gambas installed or installable, and to start the application on the diskette at boot time. (We put the application on the diskette so we could avoid remastering the CD each time we modified the application's code.) We also wanted a desktop interface with a menu link to the application, in case the program got closed or crashed.
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