bootable Redhat based CD?

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 June 2003 17:50, Net Llama! wrote:
> > I've spend the better part of the past week exploring the varios options &
> > suggestions, but i'm not making much progress.  The closest i've come to
> > success is a CD that booted as far as not finding init (even though there
> > was an inittab on the CD).
> >
> > Does anyone know where there might be decent SxS style documentation on
> > how to create a Knoppix style CD from scratch?  I looked at for various
> > HOWTO's but they're not quite sinking in.
>
> Just a thought but have you looked at Bernard's bootable linux on freshmeat?
>
> freshmeat.net/projects/bblcd/?topic_id=147%2C866
>
> It has all you need to build a bootable CD from your currently running distro.
>
> I did this once on an SuSE distro and it worked pretty well.  I think it needs
> the minix fs though but that's pretty easy to add to the kernel.

That looks promising, thanks.  Does it need minix support compiled into
the kernel, or just as a module?

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