Based on what I have desscribed in the two previous posts, I have now made a Linux distribution with an install CD.

It is called Bachata Linux, check it out here.

When booting a regular Linux system, it just mounts some partition with a nice file system (such as ext4) on your HDD on / read/write and there you go.

When booting from a CD-ROM, it’s not that simple. The CD-ROM file system, ISO 9660, does not support the file names and attributes that a Linux system normally needs. And the CD-ROM is read only.

There are ways to work around these issues. You can use the Rock Ridge extension to ISO 9660 to get the file names and attributes needed. And the read only issue can be handled either as I have described in an earlier post, or by using unionfs.