Arrr, and other noises of documentation-related frustration.

Dear Morphix-Users's email list,

I've been tooling around with Morphix for a few days now, and I am having not so
much luck.

Here are my requirements:

I have a somewhat special-purpose application in mind.  For various reasons, I
have to have a debian stable environment, and I have a custom kernel to install
(based on the debian sources, of course), but it must be a 2.4.27.

Here are my difficulties:

I have attempted to modify morphix-gnome.xml to produce a debian-stable based
livecd, as currently that template produces a unstable(or testing?) based image.
 I played around with the package list until I was satisified that essentially
all of the same packages were being installed (some have changed name, some
don't exist in stable, etc), and you may find it here, for your perusal:
http://www.math.gatech.edu/~lindsey/morphix/my-morphix-gnome.xml.gz

I used the instructions found here:
http://aquariusoft.org/page/linux/livecd_howto/

to produce an iso.  Note that at this point I have merely modified the template.
 I have not messed with the kernel or my specific software as of yet.  Following
these instructions did produce a bootable iso image, however, one that spewed
errors about read-only filesystems and a missing user (morphix, or mmorph, or
whatever that username is), and which would only reboot itself after a certain
point, I assume, because it could not figure out how to start the X server.

This is only the most recent of several attempts that have ended in failure.

So, I have an observation and a question.

First the observation:  The user documentation for morphix sucks.  I hate to be
so negative, because everything else about the project seems wonderful.  The
idea of an easy-to-build livecd is pretty hot.

So here comes the question:  Is anyone willing to help walk me through creating
such a cd with morphix?  If someone could successfully do that, I might be
willing to help you out by producing some documentation that can be understood
by someone not familiar with the inner workings of the project.

Love,

Larry
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