A Linux live CD is more than just a Linux system you carry around. Start with a live CD that has all your favorite applications. Include and play photo slideshows, presentations, Web content, and music collections. Incorporate your own designs, colors, and images to appear everywhere from the boot prompt to the desktop.

When you are done, you have a perfectly customized CD or DVD that can run on almost any PC that you can reboot. In Live Linux® CDs, bestselling Linux author Christopher Negus guides you through the free software tools and toys you need to try out and create specialized Linux live CDs for security, presentations, gaming, multimedia, firewalls, and clustering. It is the first start-to-finish guide to using, creating, building, and remastering your own live Linux distributions.

Working from live CD technology on the accompanying DVD, you can
Boot and run live Linux versions of KNOPPIX, SLAX, Gentoo, Damn Small Linux, and other live CDs
Burn and boot Linux live CD ISO images of Ubuntu, KNOPPIX, SLAX, MoviX, BackTrack, and more
Build your own live CDs from instructions based on KNOPPIX (Debian), Fedora, Gentoo, Damn Small Linux, and SLAX
Create multimedia players that are customized to include your own video or music
Customize live CD rescue toolkits to analyze and repair data on compromised networks, Windows PCs, and Linux systems
Configure personal firewalls to protect from Internet intruders
Control the processing power of a group of computers, using live CD clusters

Whether you want to customize the perfect live Linux for your own use or distribute it to the world, Live Linux® CDs gives you all the knowledge, tools, and software you need.

Acknowledgments xvii

About the Author xix

Introduction 1

Part I: Beginning with Bootable Live Linuxes 5

Chapter 1: Starting Up with Live Linux CDs 7

Chapter 2: Playing with Live Linux CDs 37

Chapter 3: Customizing a Live CD 73

Part II: Creating a Custom Bootable Linux 105

Chapter 4: Understanding How Live Linux CDs Work 107

Chapter 5: Looking Inside Live CD Components 133

Chapter 6: Building a Custom Knoppix Live CD 165

Chapter 7: Building a Basic Fedora Live CD 193

Chapter 8: Building a Basic Gentoo Live CD 223

Part III: Making a Specialized Bootable Linux 251

Chapter 9: Customizing a Security Live Linux CD 253

Chapter 10: Customizing a Presentation Live Linux CD 285

Chapter 11: Customizing a Gaming Live Linux CD 301

Chapter 12: Customizing a Multimedia Live Linux CD 325

Chapter 13: Customizing a Firewall Live Linux CD 345

Chapter 14: Customizing a Cluster Live Linux CD 359

Part IV: Appendices 373

Appendix A: On the DVD 375

Appendix B: Building, Testing, and Burning ISOs 383

Index 401

http://rapidshare.com/files/25368063/b-632b01.zip

ShareThis