Fast Introduction to building your own Morphix based livecd

Fast Introduction to building your own Morphix based livecd
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Really Fast Introduction

Get a Morphix Base iso
Add "deb http://www.morphix.org/debian unstable/" to your /etc/apt/source.list
apt-get update ; apt-get install morphing-tools
Edit mymainmod.xml
mmaker mymainmod.xml myprograms.mod
make-iso /path/source myfirstlivecd.iso

Fast Introduction

Foreplay

Use a Debian based Linux distro [preferably Debian sid, aka unstable, but every recent one should do]
Get a morphix based .iso [or better: just a base .iso, preferably a stable one atm, like 0.5-pre5 or an autobuilded base .iso]
Open a root terminal [su -, you get the point]
mount -t iso9660 -o loop nameoftheisoyoudownloaded.iso /mnt/whatever
cp -a /mnt/whatever/* /path/to/the/extracted/stuff [like /scratch/iso]

Setting up the build environment

Add "deb http://www.morphix.org/debian unstable/" to your /etc/apt/source.list
apt-get update
apt-get install morphing-tools

Creating your own mainmodule

See this manual about mmaker for building an .xml file describing your mainmodule, which will basically be your system
If you're done with the .xml file [e.g., mymainmod.xml], type "mmaker mymainmod.xml myprograms.mod" or whatever you like to name them

Building an .iso out of it

Now, remove the files in /scratch/iso/mainmod
Copy/move your myprograms.mod into /scratch/iso/mainmod
make-iso /scratch/iso myfirstlivecd.iso
Done. Burn to cd with your favorite burn program or run with "qemu -cdrom myfirstlivecd.iso" in the qemu emulator, for example

More advanced stuff

If you manually modify some stuff in /tmp/libmorphix-<randomsequence> (e.g., /tmp/libmorphix-9oVKWq) , you have to use the following command to recompress the mainmod: "module-builder /tmp/libmorphix-9oVKWq aquamorph_20051120a.mod" (or whatever you want to call the mainmodule).

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