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Re: creating a netinstall iso from the installer



On Tuesday 10 October 2006 22:55, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> Marco Herrn wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I finally managed to build my installer with a 2.6.18 kernel.
> > That worked fine. The only problem is: How do I produce an ISO now?
>
> build_netboot seems to work pretty well.  I haven't managed anything
> else.

You don't "build" CD images using only the installer. What you build using 
the CD target are only the initrd and kernel and isolinux configuration 
files that can be used in the creation of a real CD image (using e.g. 
debian-cd; the d-i wiki [1] has some alternatives).

The mini.iso image built as part of the netboot target can be used to burn 
a CD with, but it behaves as a netboot image, i.e. no packages needed for 
the installation will be included on the CD, everything needs to be 
downloaded from the network.

The gtk-miniiso target also creates a mini.iso, but one using the 
gtk/directfb graphical frontend instead of the newt one.

Some of this is explained in:
http://people.debian.org/~fjp/talks/debconf6/paper/

Cheers,
FJP

[1] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller

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