Collection of installation & troublshooting info related to my linux (debian/mint/ubuntu) installations

Live-CDs

http://www.livecdlist.com
http://www.williamaford.com/DiagnosticTools.php

CD-Bootables eltorito

Grub 1

$ mkdir iso
Make a directory for GRUB:

$ mkdir -p iso/boot/grub
Copy the file stage2_eltorito:
$ cp /usr/share/grub/i386-pc/stage2_eltorito iso/boot/grub
If desired, make the config file menu.lst under iso/boot/grub (see Configuration), and copy any files and directories for the disc to the directory iso/.
Finally, make a ISO9660 image file like this:

$ mkisofs -R -b boot/grub/stage2_eltorito 
             -no-emul-boot 
             -boot-load-size 4 
             -boot-info-table 
             -o grub.iso iso

Iso-Linux

IMAGE=custom.iso
BUILD=/opt/cd-image/

mkisofs -r -V "Custom Ubuntu Install CD" \
            -cache-inodes \
            -J -l -b isolinux/isolinux.bin \
            -c isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot \
            -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table \
            -o $IMAGE $BUILD