A live CD or live DVD is a complete bootable Linux operating system loaded from a CD or DVD. Although there are a lots of live Linux CDs, for seemingly every taste and purpose, it might still be useful on occasion to build your own. This guide details the steps to build a bootable live CD/DVD based on Debian “wheezy”.
Step 1 – Installing the necessary software
These are the software packages you need to install on your Debian system:
# apt-get install xorriso live-build syslinux squashfs-tools
Step 2 – Create a basic filesystem
Start by creating a new work directory, and bring in a basic Debian filesystem using debootstrap. Depending on your network connection, it will take some time downloading all the necessary packages:
# mkdir ~/livework && cd ~/livework # debootstrap --arch=amd64 wheezy chroot
The new filesystem was created in ~/livework/chroot directory. It is time to chroot into the new filesystem and finish the installation.
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