Your own distro - How to?

[Mutiny]

Ok, I've done most of the Linux from scratch install. I REALLY don't want to do this for every system I install in the future.

How would you go about making your own install CD like a full distro? As far as it goes, I'd be happy with compiling the RPM's or DEB's I actually want/need and installing them.

Is there any information available on creating your own distro? A bootable CD and a few install scripts to check for hardware should be it, right?

I'm probably oversimplifying things, but this sounds really cool to me.

John

[ph34r]

You could do something like a generic LFS system, and tar it up when it is "done". Then, using a mini distro on a floppy like HAL91, you could boot on a new system, untar, change a few files (/etc/fstab, lilo.conf, etc.), reboot using loadlin to boot once, then setup and configgure lilo, then you are "installed".

This is how I moved my lfs system around to different machines to work on it in various places. Can get tricky, but it works.