Create your own customised GNOME liveCD

[Marcus Bauer <marcus bauer gmail com>]

Hi, creating a customized GNOME liveCD yourself is easy and takes just a
few minutes of time:


It involves three simple steps:

  1. download and unpack http://project77.info/gnomelive/liveCD-0.2.tgz
  2. ./make_livecd.sh en en_US
  3. burn the resulting .iso onto a CD-ROM and enjoy!


You can customise in an effortless way:

  * the default language
  * background images (boot splash, gnome splash, desktop)
  * add sample files to the Desktop
  * add and remove packages


The scripts are simply remastering the hoary liveCD. The idea behind
having customised liveCDs is to give non-english speakers easy access to
GNOME: simply putting it into the drive and hitting enter. The CD may
start up in any language supported by the debian installer and GNOME.

Additionally it gives everybody the opportunity to make a liveCD with
ones favourite applications, i.e. rescue tools etc.

I still think it would be cool for the next GNOME release to have a
couple dozen localized liveCDs (naturally based on 2.12 and with install
option).

Marcus