Okay, tonight some sort of hidden inspiration inside of me broke loose. I have been working on my own little customization of Knoppix. I figured it would be neat to show off to some of my friends, and be able to take my own little linux system with me on a cd everywhere I go. So I started working with my system. Now, a few days later, I am thinking about a new type of remaster, one that could turn Knoppix into a full-fledged Debian distrobution, much more than it is by a harddrive install now. The idea is to have the Knoppix CD boot right into a harddrive installer program. The harddrive installer would install a rather small system, with maybe a gui (not sure yet) but pretty much just a Knoppix system without any of the overbloated software. From here, you would reboot and have a shell script come up after logging in (it may have to be invoked by the user, a price to pay for my idea). The script would have a menu from which you could choose what to install for your system. Basically, a menu like this:
Which of the following would you like to install:
[1] KDE System
[2] Games
[3] Office System (openoffice, utilities that are needed with it)
[4] Fluxbox System
[5] Chat Programs (gaim, xchat, any other necessities)
[6] Graphics (Gimp)
And a whole bunch of other possibilities, but I don't feel like listing them all out right now. I know exactly how to program the shell script that will install the programs required, using apt-get. I would like peoples opions for this idea, and any help would be appreciated. I am a relative noob to linux, I know some stuff but not a lot, and this project would be part of a large learning curve I want to learn about the ins and outs of linux, more than what you get installing gentoo or other distrobutions, learn to do some basic shell scripting and things like that. Any advice? tips?
--Robert Deaton
[if I get a good response like I hope to, I will try to set up a paypal account for donations, as I am a poor 13 year old who needs a decent PC to work on, since this laptop won't cut it.]
Questions? E-mail me at
bobby@false-hopes.com or IM me at masqueradicstyle
Thanks.
