Step by Step instructions to making your own CD under Linux 

1. Create your joomla website on your development system.

2. Create a work directory on your local machine

mkdir/path_to/work

3. Export your Joomla database as a MySQL dump.

To do this, you could use a program such as mysqldump or PHPMyAdmin.

4. Save the dump, following the scheme: name_of_the_database.sql

VERY IMPORTANT the name_of_the_database must be the same as the name of the database in your configuration.php

5. Pack the MySQL dumps into a tarball called mysql-dumps.tar.gz (Note the tarball must have this name)

tar czf mysql-dumps.tar.gz *.sql .

6. Now move the tarball to the work directory.

mv mysql-dumps.tar.gz /path_to/work

7. Edit configuration.php with your favourite text editor to be:

$mosConfig_host = 'localhost';
$mosConfig_user = 'root';
$mosConfig_password = '';
$mosConfig_absolute_path = '/var/www';
$mosConfig_live_site = 'http://localhost';
$mosConfig_cachepath = '/var/www/cache';

8. Save the website to a tarball called htdocs.tar.gz (Note the tarball must have this name)

tar czf htdocs.tar.gz /path_to_website_root/*

VERY IMPORTANT Make sure you do not include any backup files or your original configuration.php

9. Now move the tarball to the work directory.

mv htdocs.tar.gz /path_to/work

10. Download lamppix-mini-iso-1.1.iso it is 150Mb in size.

11. Create a new directory on your local machine called source

mkdir /path_to/source

12. Mount the .iso image of lamppix

mount -o loop lamppix-mini.iso /path_to/source

13. Create a new directory on your local machine called master

mkdir /path_to/master

14. Copy the contents of source to master

cp -a /path_to/source/* /path_to/master/

15. Copy the tarballs from your work directory to the master/www directory

cp /path_to/htdocs.tar.gz /path_to/master/www/
cp /path_to/mysql-dumps.tar.gz /path_to/master/www/

16. Create a new .iso image

mkisofs -V "LAMPPIX" -r -J -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -o my-joomla-demo.iso /path_to/master

VERY IMPORTANT. This should be all on one line

17. You are now ready to burn the CD