well, being pleased to hear about debian-oven being inspired by simple-cdd, i couldn't help but make a new simple-cdd release :) some of the improvements over previous versions: simple-cdd (0.2.0) unstable; urgency=low * automatically include "default" profile * option to build local package repository * simplified language and country selection * added build-time configuration file for profiles * examples for setting default CD label * updated freekbox3 and lessdisks profiles * prompt before over-writing hard-disk partitions by default * build-simple-cdd: many commandline options added -- Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@freegeek.org> Mon, 11 Jul 2005 11:28:19 -0600 most of the recent developments for simple-cdd were needed to simplify creation of a simple installer for freekbox3, freegeek's desktop distribution for recycled hardware: http://freegeek.org to download simple-cdd, stick in /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://debian-np.alioth.debian.org/debian unstable main (also added a "backport" of debpartial-mirror for sarge) and: apt-get install simple-cdd or from svn: svn co svn://svn.debian.org/svn/debian-np/trunk/packages/simple-cdd i also improved the package description, hopefully this is good enough for cdd-doc, or were you looking for something more, andreas? :) Description: create custom debian-installer CDs simple-cdd is a limited though relatively easy tool to create a customized debian-installer CD. . it includes simple mechanisms to create "profiles" that define common system configurations, which can be selected during system installation. simple-cdd also makes it easy to build CDs with language and country settings pre-configured, or to use a 2.6 kernel by default. . this can be used to create a crude "Custom Debian Distribution" using packages from debian, with pre-configuration of packages that use debconf. custom configuration scripts can be specified to handle packages that don't support debconf pre-configuration. . testing CD images with qemu is also made simple with a provided script. it has only been tested with debian-cd from sarge (other than debpartial-mirror), so if using a new debian-cd or debian-installer, it may require some tweaks. in some ways, it might make sense to move simple-cdd from the debian-np project to the cdd project, as it really is more general than non-profit use only. if folks wouldn't mind giving me ("vagrant-guest" on alioth) svn access. :) and with things like debian-oven and when cddtk has support for building the installer CDs, hopefully simple-cdd will become obsolete :) live well, vagrant
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature