4. Creating the hybrid live CD

This part is even easier!

• Go System->Configuration->Make Live CD

• Select the advanced option

  For most part the defaults will do. There are just two places where you have to take care:

  1. On the Select a root directory screen, you may select files and directories to exclude. Here you can specify all the directories under "/home".

     Should the root file system occupy more than 1.8G, you can also select to exclude certain files under "/usr" such as the java and open office libraries below "/usr/lib".

     Beware not to select the whole "/usr" since the live CD requires some libraries and files inside "/usr" during startup.

     The reason why we do this, is to keep the ISO image below 700MB so it may still fit on a CD.

     Figure 1. Exclude Directories

     

  2. On the Special Mount Points screen, you specify which parts of the file system should be mounted via NFS.

     Figure 2. Specifying a NFS mount

     

     Figure 3. Listing the NFS mount points

     

     When you are finished, click Forward and wait for the live CD to be created.

• When your ISO is created, you can burn it and give it a test drive.