Re: customised Linux distro

[Brian Candler <B.Candler at pobox.com>]

On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 12:28:03AM +0300, Patrick Okui wrote:
> ....considering
> that at some point / has to be mounted rw and I do
> not know how to do this on cd-rom media.....

There is actually no need to make '/' mounted rw on a running system (I have
run diskless systems with '/' a read-only NFS mount). However you will need
to mount something writable on /tmp and /var, at least a ramdisk.

CD-ROMs are made bootable by having an image file which the BIOS interprets
as a 1.44MB or 2.88MB "floppy disk". On installation CDs this typically
contains a kernel and an image of a ramdisk which is mounted on /.

See mkisofs (-b option) and mkinitrd (for RedHat Linux)

You could try asking the question on a mailing list for the distro you are
trying to build (e.g. redhat-users) since the process for building a new
distribution is bound to be known by someone.

B.

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