On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 7:19 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan <raju.rajsand at gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings, > > On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Darr247 <darr247 at gmail.com> wrote: >> Seems pretty-clear to me... the OP requests links to instructions to >> turn an installed and configured CentOS system into a Live CD or DVD. >> > > Thanks for your understanding. > > I have already created an custom install CD so I am fairly aware of kickstart. > >> >> Though I'm tempted to just post >> http://lmgtfy.com/?q=create+Live+CD+CentOS >> >> This wiki looks appropriate - >> https://projects.centos.org/trac/livecd/wiki/CreateImage > > I have followed this method and have failed to make live CD boot on a > KVM based VM. If the goal is to make something that will re-install a copy of a configured/working system instead of actually running from the read-only iso, look at ReaR or Clonezilla. Clonezilla requires a shutdown and reboot from the clonezilla-live iso to save the image and then has to install on approximately the same kind of hardware, including the disk size, but the same technique will work with Windows images. ReaR is linux-only and doesn't require a shutdown to make the image. It uses your native system tools (across several Linux distributions) to create a bootable iso that includes a script to re-create the filesystem layout (with the layout stored in file that you could edit, if necessary) and then restore a backup onto it. Backup methods are pluggable with tar to an nfs target and rsync included. The whole system is a set of shell scripts. I'm not sure ReaR would be the best starting point to create a bootable/runnable custom iso, but the tools would all be there, including an easy way to specify additional things you want included. In any case, it will get you a bootable iso with your installed kernel with just a few minutes of work. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com