A reader comment in last week's LWN, requesting a more detailed round-up of the available tools for building custom live CDs, inspired today's feature. Although there are more than a hundred bootable ...

We all know about the possibilities for installing Linux on a hard drive. Sometimes, however, this option isn't good enough. Say, for example, you simply want to give someone a Linux CD that he can ...

I am at a loss as to how to dump a CD (in the drive) to an image file in Solaris. My hope is to create a series of ISOs of media that I can quickly burn or loop-mount and export via NFS.

In the old command-line days, about the only way to write a CD-ROM on a Linux system was to know the set of commands that build an ISO filesystem and then copy it to a CD. Today, with the availability ...