Parted Magic is everything the gparted livecd tries to be times ten. Included in the barebones desktop are Partimage, TestDisk, Truecrypt, Clonezilla, G4L, SuperGrubDisk, ddrescue, and more.
Perform an Inception. Mount your iso, then mount the image found inside. Go inside the second image to see what is available during the pre install section of a kickstart. Use isomaster to rebuild the install.img and plop that inside the the outer iso, rebuilding that one too.
If you’ve been thinking about trying out Ubuntu for a server, now would be a good time. If you’re accustomed to living inside the limited world of Windows, perhaps Ubuntu Server Edition would be your best bet for getting your feet wet with a real OS. The LTS releases are supported for a longer duration and there’s training and consulting readily available to support your needs as an organization.
I’ll start with a small DSL linux image. It’s only 50 meg, but it’s a pretty useful little distribution.
ls -lh dsl-4.4.10.iso
-rw-r–r– 1 ninja ninja 50M 2009-08-28 13:11 dsl-4.4.10.iso
Mount the original iso image you want to modify
mount -t iso9660 dsl-4.4.10.iso /mnt/original -o loop
Copy the everything that you just mounted to another …
boot.iso should be enough to get you going. You should be able to find it on most fedora mirrors. The one I just downloaded was only 147 megabytes.