Custom and Branded Knoppix

Austin Godber
September 2003

Announcement

Summary

Knoppix is a Debian based Live-on-CD Linux distribution. Just pop it in a CD drive, reboot, and you have a fully functional Linux demo, rescue disk, backup server or Linux Workstation. Anyone can make a custom Knoppix CD to suit their needs. All you need is at least 6GB of hardrive space and about 1GB total RAM (physical + swap). A Knoppix disc can also be "branded" to promote your LUG, company or product. A simple branding would only modify the images and HTML on the original Knoppix disc.

This presentation will address the issues involved in making a Custom Knoppix CD as well as bradning Knoppix. I will also release some helpful scripts that will aid in these tasks. In fact, to date, I have scripts that enable me to brand a Knoppix disc just by running three scripts on a Knoppix ISO (assuming you have the images prepared).

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Bio

Austin is a Faculty Research Associate in the Distributed Operating Systems group at Arizona State University. He has published work on 802.11b network security and continues to work in the field among other things. He graduated from ASU in 2000 with a BS in Physics where he received an award for research in nuclear physics.

He has used Linux since 1995 (Linux Counter #29452) where he started off with Slackware, moved to Redhat and now has largely switched to Debian (via Knoppix), but is friend to all distributions, editors, progamming languages ... and of course ladies ;).

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Branding Scripts

These will be rewritten to enable branding booted from a Knoppix CD.