Quote Originally Posted by hanson1072
That's exactly the direction I'm heading in. Right now I'm using DSL on a thumb drive to boot on the thin clients (they don't have CD drives). This won't work at my last site because it has a Dell with front USB ports that DSL doesn't recognize (so no thumb drive for data storage). Knoppix works well on that machine. I think I'm going to need a small portable USB drive (a real drive rather than a thumb drive) with customized Knoppix for all sites. I read the remastering FAQ and it looks pretty straightforward (silly silly me---nothing is ever straightforward).

I'm always open to other recommendations though. Thanks for the input
Try Slax. The Server edition comes w/ MYSQL+APACHE+DNS+PHP+KDE, is easier to remaster than KNOPPIX and can easily fit on a thumb drive (the server is <300MB, well-customized < 500MB !) What's great about SLAX and is superior to most live CD distros is that you can remaster it as easliy in Windows or Linux, no exagerration.

I'm not able to live exclusively in the Linux world at this time (like most long-time Windows users).) With SLAX, you simply add their modules (compressed Slackware pkgs, of which there literally hundreds) to the /modules sub-dir of the ISO image, reburn, and go.

Don't get me wrong after that little pitch for Slax. Knoppix is my #2 distro, it's simply more Linux-centric, like the other Linux live CDs....Jet