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Re: creating a customized debian-installer testing CD with non-free firmware that starts talking on boot and is at low priority



Hi, I would still like to make a custom debian installation disc either with simple-cdd or with the debian-cd packages and think it is the GTK image that is used for the talking installation. If all I wish to do is have the base and standard system packages along with web server and laptop and as many packages that will fit on either a CD or DVD like networkmanager for connecting to wireless networks so that when the installation is finished my system will be connected to a wireless network as the installer usually has a user do this at the beginning of the installation and put all of the firmware included on the network installation image are there no templates I can use for this purpose? I would like to make this disc image for quick installation on systems with slow internet connections so I don't have to keep downloading the same packages and they would be on the disc and the only things it would need to download were other packages selected during the installation and any updates to either the installer or security updates. Nick Gawronski


On 4/17/2017 2:57 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
Hello,

Nick Gawronski, on lun. 17 avril 2017 01:16:56 -0500, wrote:
wish to build a custom debian installation testing CD
that is around 650 megs or a DVD around 4.7 gigs that has the non-free
firmware.  I have looked into simple-ccd and debian-cd but they really look
complex based on just what I want to do.
Well, yes and no.

Yes, simple-cd / debian-cd are complex. But what you want to do is, too.
Building a CD image is really not a that-simple task: how do you fetch
the packages, which size do you want, do you want the firmwares, do you
want some preseeding, etc. etc. So many things that need to be said to
the tool to build the images, and thus yes the tool is complex.

I wish the installer to start up talking and at low priority.  Looking
on the testing directory there is only a xfce 650 MB disc without
firmware but this would work if speech were on this disc as I could
always put the firmware on an USB stick.
Well, then use it and the expert boot menu entry (see my mail from a few
days ago: just press 'a' (for advanced) then 'x' (for expert)).

Samuel


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