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grml-live: create your own grml-ISO

Ever wanted to build your very own grml-ISO without having to deal with all the remastering details? Want to include your very own kernel? Want to change configuration of some files? Then grml-live might be what you ever dreamed of. :)

Check out the grml-live documentation to get an idea what I’m talking about. As you might notice grml-live is based on FAI (Fully Automatic Installation), this will provide us the possibility to deploy grml even faster, better and more customized than we already do (using grml2hd, grml-debootstrap and grml-terminalserver).

Want to get an idea how fast you can build an ISO using grml-live? Check out:

Screenshot of grml-live (1)

So all I did was invoking ‘grml-live’. Not even 7 minutes later I’ve a working grml live-CD which is based on Debian-stable, providing kernel 2.6.22-grml and all the basic grml features:

Screenshot of grml-live (2)

Stay tuned for an official release of grml-live. We are working on reducing the todo list - like porting it to other architectures, providing different flavours, some more customisation hooks and finally providing a full-grml-built using grml-live.