Hi

Hopefully someone here can assist me, I have spent so many hours trawling for answers I am more confused now than before!

I want to create my own custom version of linux, this I understand how to do my changing my choice distro and then remastering it

But I also want to include a way to the install this LiveCD to a hard disk as a live image still with a loop/changes/persistance file (seems to have different names in different places!)

I use and am part of the team testing eeepclinuxos (but I am more of a windows man so not too great with linux!) and on this distro they customized I believe the gtk-liveinstall script from pclinux so you could install it to hard disk and create a changes file

Does anyone know of an equivalent for mandriva?

I prefer to customize mandriva as I like it more than other distros, I had though of using pclinux as they did for the eeepc version, but this still only has kde 3.5 and I want a more updated version with kde 4.1+ etc

Willing to use another distro if someone has good advice for me

Thanks

If you want to make a customised linux distro, this might serve aa a good starting point,
http://nimblex.net/
http://cccclinuxsig.pbwiki.com/f/Nimble+X+Linux.ppt

Thanks for that - I had tried nimblex, but found it too basic for my needs and the apps, kde etc are outdated versions and I would like to build with latest versions

Then I think the best way to start would be to learn about and understand the generic mechanisms for building a (any) Live CD and take it from there. Maybe start with something tried 'n true like KNOPPIX (or search for "mandriva live cd howto") and *then* work your way up to "go faster" stripes, bells 'n whistles and gizmoidal contraptions...