hi guys,

I'd like to make a customized linux system with LFS, and add some applications like iptables, aide, snort into the distribution, then strip off all unnecessary library files of LFS which is installed first (some suggestions on it? how do I know which part is most important?). I also need to make a bootle CD with the distribution inside. So after booting the system with the CD, I can install my self-made linux system on any machine.

Any suggestion would be appreciated.

Thank you in advance.

Best Regards,
kurt

Setup the distro on an hd
Copy the hd to an image file
Setup floppy to boot from image file
Put both on cd.

hi aaa,
Thank you for your reply.
Could you please be more specific on the whole process? or give some links which have direction on how to do it.

My another quesiton is that how to let the CD like redhat distrition to install new system automatically with less usr's interactive operation. Is there a project exsted can help do that?

Thank you in advance.

BR,
kurt

Set up the distro the way you want on a hard drive. It will have to be <700 mb, or you will have to use special compression. Then copy to image file:
First make the file:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/imagefile bs=1k count=[size you need in kb]
Format:
mke2fs /imagefile
Mount:
mount /imagefile /mnt/distro on file -o loop
Copy:
cp -a /mnt/distro_on_hd/* /mnt/distro_on_file
Unmount:
umount /mnt/distro_on_file
Now you have the ditro on a file. As for what to do after this, I'm not sure exactly how to do it. You can examine Knoppix to see how it's done, and there's lots of howtos on Google. You will need to make a bootdisk that mounts and switches to a ramdisk, which has links to bigger files on the cd (in the image file).

For auto-install: Red Hat has Kickstart