On Monday 10 March 2003 02:50 pm, Justin Haaheim wrote: > I'm interested in creating my own Knoppix-like, minimalistic and > initially very simple Live (to be run from a cd) linux distro. My idea > was to use Debian as the base system. I'm more familiar with RedHat, > but I'd imagine that there's some copyright infringement problems if I > modify redhat and call it my own. Well, it's been a couple of years since I've touched The Horror That Must Not Be Named, but last I checked, most of RH is Free software, so all you would have to do is remove anything that is under their copyright and remove all instances of "Red Hat" from any files. > Does anyone have any guidance or any resources you would like to provide > me? Any pointers, websites, documentation, etc. would be useful. I'm > specifically wondering, now, how I would configure the distro to run its > rw memory from ram. What's wrong with just taking Knoppix, stripping out everything you don't want, put in what you do want, slapping your own label on it, and calling it golden? Klaus Knopper has done a wonderful job with all the hardware detection and running from RAM issues, so why not build off the shoulders of giants, rather than work from the ground up? :Peter -- Oh what a tangled web they weave who try a new word to conceive! _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list