Hi!!

I Tried to create the Slackware live CD

From The following Link i tried the Creation Of live cd

http://www.linuxpackages.net/howto.php?page=livecd&title=livecd+HOWTO

For creating I did the following Procedure.

I compiled the kernel 2.4.33.3

After that i created a directory named as livecd in the /root

In the livecd directory I created the three directories named as following

I.live
II.kernels
III.isolinux

After that i created the initrd image in the /boot by using following command

mkinitrd -c -k 2.4.33.3 -m reiserfs

then its created the initrd.gz

In The above three folders i copied different ones as following

I.live

I copied linux kernel 2.4.33.3 in this.

II. kernels

In this i copied the image from the /boot named as bzImage


III.In isolinux

1. I copied initrd.gz which one i created in the /boot
2. I copied the isolinux.bin from the /usr/src/isolinux/
3. I created the empty file iso.sort
4. I created the another file name as isolinux.cfg

The isolinux.cfg file have the following statement


default /kernels/bzImage initrd=initrd.gz load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 ramdisk_size=20000 rw root=/dev/ram SLACK_KERNEL=bzImage vga=normal prompt 0


By using Following Step i make the iso

i go to the cd /root/livecd from here i entered the following command


mkisofs -o /root/livecd.iso -R -J -hide-rr-moved -v -d -N -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 32 -boot-info-table -sort isolinux/iso.sort -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/isolinux.boot .

After that i tested the livecd by using qemu

qemu -cdrom live.iso -boot d

After that when it is booting i got the following at end

freeing unused kernel memory:124k freed
/bin/sh: can't open prompt
kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!

urgh, that how to is quite "primitive"... why don't you try with linux-live?
it's the technology behind the slax livecd, see: http://www.linux-live.org/

thank u...

Your problem was that you just created a 'normal' initrd for booting from a hard disk. Any initrd for a LiveCD is much larger and way more complex -all the 'magic' is done by the initrd and clever use of file-system and mounting features.
You could study the old slackware way of having a LiveCD by downloading an old version of CD#2 (like for slackware-9.1) which included the 'Live' feature. The Slackware way was quite different from what most other live distros did and do. The Slax way is more conventional and modern. Still, to study up on what is really being done, the best way is to acquire several LiveCD's like slax, Slackware, Knoppix and Puppy or Damnsmall, mount the CD's and copy the initrd over to hard disk where you can then decompress them and then mount them with a loop device and see inside. Very educational if you are interested. If you just want to use a LiveCD and not build your own version, Slax or Puppy are probably your best bet.