1. Status

FWLive is a livecd based on Frugalware. This means you can (ideally) take any Frugalware version, select your favourite packages and build a livecd from them. Nice, isn't it? ;-)

FWLive is in a testing status. This means that you can download a binary iso based on the latest Frugalware testing release and you also get the source (see below).

2. Requirements

All you need is an installed Frugalware system and root privileges (as you will build the LiveCD in a chrooted system).

3. Build from scratch

If you never compiled the FWLive, you need the following steps:

$ mkdir -p ~/git
$ cd ~/git
$ git clone http://git.frugalware.org/repos/fwlive/.git
$ git clone http://git.frugalware.org/repos/translations/.git
$ cd fwlive

Check if all referenced repositories are configured. Check the TREE variable in the file config: for example if it contains current then check if current is enabled as a repository in /etc/repoman.conf.

Note
 You can place your fwlive repository anywhere you want, and if you want to place your translations repository somewhere else, you just need to edit po/Makefile.

To build the livecd:

$ sudo make

To clean up compiled code in the source dir:

$ sudo make clean

To remove the building chroot:

$ sudo make distclean

4. Customizing

Have a look at the file named config, you can set several configuration options there.

5. I would like to have support for …

If something does not work, then please contact us! Please also try the git version before reporting a bug, your problem may be already fixed there.

In fact, of course, we wrote this documentation after figured out how to do this setup, so maybe we left out some steps. If you needed any additional tricks, then it would be nice to include them here.

6. Additional resources

You can reach a gitweb interface here.

7. Thanks

Please see the AUTHORS file for the list of contributors. Feel free to contact us if you're missing from there!