[plug] How to build a complete Linux solution + app on a CD?

[Richard Meyer]

On Sun, 2006-08-06 at 22:56 +0800, Kai wrote:
> Fred Janon wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I don't know much about Linux, hopefully more in the next year, so
> > maybe you can tell me how to achieve this:
> > 
> > I would like to be able to deliver a complete Linux + applications
> > (Java, Tomcat, mySQL + my custom app) preconfigured on a bootable CD to
> > my customers.
> > 
> > I have seen and tried a few Linux distros bootable from a CD (I love
> > Puppy Linux, it is so small and still pretty impressive!) but I don't
> > know how to create a CD image that would contain Java + Tomcat + mySQL
> > and my app so everything would start at boot time without installation.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Fred
> 
> This sounds like a great idea and I'm interested if anyone has any 
> comments about it !
> 
> Cheers
> Kai

Linux Format - LXF74 Christmas 2005 edition has an article on exactly
this.

I am NOT going to retype it, but hopefully you can find the article on
their website www.linuxformat.co.uk

It doesn't look THAT difficult (once you know what to do).

HTH
-- 
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