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making a minimal CD



Hello,

I am trying to make a potato CD that contains only what is really
necessary to install the base system in preparation for downloading
the packages from the Net. 
Right now, I am experimenting with the pseudo-image-kit: I removed
all lines referencing /dists/potato/main/binary-i386/ from the
official binary-i386-1.list. The make-pseudo-image throws numerous
generic errors at me. I am using the ftp method and the progress
indicator in pseudo-image.log looks OK. So the errors might (or might
not) be bogus.
But assuming I end up  with a complete pseudo image: Obviously, I
can't run rsync against the official image. That would defeat the
purpose. So, is the image created by make-pseudo-image going to be a
valid ISO image? Is it going to be bootable? And most importantly: Is
there a better way?
I got the debian-cd package from CVS, but it seems somewhat
inaccessible. I can't even figure out how best to create the local
mirror that it requires. Is there any in-depth documentation on that
somewhere?
Any input would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Juergen

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