Easy way to create distro? Any stripped to the WM distros?

colinstu · 05-25-2008, 12:51 PM

I swear there use to be a website that allowed you to pick the packages you want, and then it would create an ISO that you could download and burn for a custom little distro. Searching around, I can't seem to find it.

I'd like to make something with decent driver support (get graphics on the screen, detect USB ports, ethernet, etc) but to come with a base amount of extras. Basically XFCE (with no thrills like a calculator/notepad) and Firefox. That's it.

Any ideas thoughts?

brianL · 05-25-2008, 02:44 PM

I think Slax is something like that, add whatever modules you want. Have a look at it:

http://www.slax.org/

teddyt · 05-25-2008, 08:48 PM

There are a number of ways to create your own distro. What you describe sounds like NimbleX, where you just click the mouse a few times and you've got a distro.

http://www.nimblex.net/

Fedora offers revisor. Debian has a similar but more difficult project. Then there is the remaster capability of Mandriva, PCLinuxOS, and other distros. There is also rpath.

Edit: In addition, have you tried just a minimal installation? Most distros offer that. It's the least amount of work. This is a guide for a minimal install on Ubuntu:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/In...wMemorySystems