Generate a LiveCD flavor
- Tazlito - SliTaz Live Tool.
- Get a flavor - Download a flavor file.
- Gen your own distro - Generate a Live distro in one single command.
Tazlito - SliTaz Live Tool
Tazlito is a tool to help generate and configure SliTaz LiveCD ISO images.
You can create a custom distro in two commands from a list of packages and a
flavor file, extract an existing ISO image to hack it, create new initramfs
and/or a new ISO. Most commands must be run by root, except the stats and the
configuration file manipulation. Like other SliTaz tiny utils, you can simply
type tazlito usage in a terminal to get a list of all
commands with a short description in English.
Get a flavor
SliTaz LiveCD can easily be rebuilt using Tazlito flavor support. A special LiveCD flavor can be built from the LiveCD/RAM itself or from an installed system. If you want to rebuild SliTaz from the LiveCD you need at least 256 Mb of RAM and we recommend that you store the file on persistent media (USB key, HD, etc). To start you need to get a flavor file from a SliTaz mirror, open a Xterm, become root administrator and get the default core system:
# tazlito get-flavor core
Generate your own distro
The command get-flavor will download the core flavor, giving you a description
and a list of packages in the current directory with some additional files in
/home/slitaz/distro/addfiles (JWM menu, wallpapers, hacker files). From now on
you can add or remove packages in the list (distro-packages.list),
modify configuration files (tazlito.conf) and optionally modify
additional files. Then simply generate a LiveCD ISO image:
# tazlito gen-distro
The LiveCD ISO image, root filesystem (rootfs) and the content of the CD (rootcd) are in /home/slitaz/distro. All repacked or downloaded packages are stored by default in /home/slitaz/packages. If you want to chroot in the rootfs to preconfigure the system, add more files in the rootcd directory or add users, you just have to rebuild initramfs and the ISO image to generate your new LiveCD:
# tazlito gen-initiso
Burn ISO and gen a flavor file
Tazlito can also burn the LiveCD and/or create a flavor file to keep your modifications:
# tazlito burn-iso # tazlito gen-flavor