[RULE] Building custom Slinky ISO's.... Yourself!

[Michael Fratoni]

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Yes, you too can build ISO files for fun and (no)profit! ;)

I was thinking about this issue today at work, (while I was being paid to 
be thinking of other things..), and it occurred to me that it is quite 
possible for users to build their own ISO images.

I don't know why I didn't think of this before, it's really very simple.
I've created a tarball of my build tree. Scripts, base filesystem, rpm 
packages, etc.

To build your own ISO:
(This does assume a linux machine, and a grasp of basic linux tools.)

o Download the tarball into your home directory. 
        (I'll post it shortly, it's 36M in size)
o $ su root. 
        (Required, the tarball contains device files, which can't be created by
        mortal users.)
o # tar -xvzf slinky_devel.tar.gz
o # chown -R user.user slinky_devel
        (where user is your user name)
o # exit
o $ cd slinky_devel
        (Poke around, change things, be careful...)
o edit version.h, define version as something NOT rule like.
        (I don't want bug reports on images I know nothing about)
o Get ready to build the images
o $ su - ( - is important, you want a login shell)
        (You need root to build the images. only root can mount loop devices.)
o # cd /home/user/slinky_devel
o # ./makedisk.sh 
o # ./makedisk2.sh
o # ./makepcmcia.sh
o # ./makeiso.sh
o # ls slinky_images/slinky-${version}/
You should see all the .img files, as well as the .iso.

Sound reasonable?

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