Re: [MLUG] Custom Linux installation CD

[John Engelbrecht <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I know that slackware lets you choose what DIR or packages
to install. If you upgrade slackware, just exclude the
packages you don't want.

Anyway, this site is what you want.
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/

On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Mark Teeple wrote:

> Could anybody explain how to make a custom Linux installation CD or a
> webpage that would describe the process?  What I am trying to do is make
> a CD of the linux I have installed on my computer to install on my dad's
> computer on the second harddrive(850Mb).  What I did on my computer,
> since I didn't find any distro I liked that didn't install a lot of extra
> junk, was to install Linux from source using the linuxfromscratch
> directions.  This gave me a system with only what I needed including X
> and KDE in under 300Mb.  I would do this on my dad's computer, but it
> took me 3 days and over 1Gb of diskspace to install it on my computer's
> second harddrive.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
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