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can anyone guide me to some online documentation or steps to make a custom distribution based on redhat or suse ? i have taken up a task to promote linux with a big hardware vendor and need to make a single cd distro with maximum apps support in the install. need to incorporate many apps that are other wise not part of the default install or otherwsie not bundled at all.
your best bet is to read or try the www.linuxfromscratch.com project.. there are some open ongoing threads of people working on these themselves.. but that is about as close you gonna get with documentation or the best that is on making basically your own distro..
Linux From Scratch is probably your best bet. To do what you want to do though have a look at some of the tips they offer. One of them is about creating a boot CD which may be of use. It isn't part of the default LFS guide thats why I pointed it out.
thanks for the help. i was mainly looking for more help on making it based on redhat or suse. i am pretty much aware of lfs. but the problem there is i do not have those many skills to write my own installer for the same.
thanks for the help. i was mainly looking for more help on making it based on redhat or suse. i am pretty much aware of lfs. but the problem there is i do not have those many skills to write my own installer for the same.
pmehta
i am sure there is a way to take the redhat installer and add it to yours.. you could also not use the packages totally from LFS but take them off the redhat cd's to base totally off redhat.. but then compile your own packages on what you want.. its possible.. but myself.. don't have the time or expertise on all of that.. and would just download redhat and do a custom install for that, then add whatever from there to customize.
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make Custom Distribution ??
