[ale] Custom bootable CD or DVD

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The Gentoo "minimal" liveCDs are good for reverse-engineering like this.  Out of the box, it doesn't start any services although some are there (esp. sshd) to be started by hand.  The footprint is tens of MB and the included kernel is pretty good about bringing everything up.  


 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: JK <jknapka at kneuro.net>
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I've been tasked with building a turn-key Linux box that will boot
> from a CD or DVD and run one specific application.  It will need
> to have an HD or SSD available for swapping and writing logfiles, but
> the OS, the custom user-land application, and all required libraries
> will run from the CD.
> 
> I've played around with DIY Linux before, and got to the point of
> booting a custom CD with Busybox and a shell.  However, from an
> "enterprise friendliness" standpoint it would be good to base this
> project on a mainstream distro.  Is there any particular distro I
> should look at?  In the absence of suggestions otherwise, I hear a
> faint voice yelling "Slack!" in the distance...
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- JK
> 
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