Re: Creating custom CDs
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 07:47:49AM +0200, Luca wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I downloaded and used Debian Etch beta 3 release to compile my own
> system from scratch i a new partition of my hd. The hard disk is
> partitioned like that:
> hda1 swap
> hda2 / (Debian Etch beta 3 release)
> hda3 / (My own system)
>
> I would like to create an installation cd or a set of installation cds
> or a dvd for my own system.
> It was built entirely from sources and so I would like to ask if it is
> possible to use debian-installer to create a cd which includes the
> source packages plus patches and to build it from *.tar.gz , *.tar.bz2
> etc... instead of using .deb packages following a specific build order
> and for example adding support for reiser4 file system.
> The idea was to unpack the source package in ram, apply the needed
> patches, running the configure script (plus the various options), make,
> make install and ldconfig normal way to compile packages so to install
> it directly to hd.
I don't understand what is wanted.
Could it be that the original poster is looking for "Debian from scratch"?
This comes from 'dfsbuild':
|Description: Build Debian From Scratch CD/DVD images
| Debian From Scratch (DFS) is a live bootable CD that is designed to
| provide a fully-featured kernel and a fully-featured rescue environment.
| The rescue environment contains filesystem tools, editors, C development
| environment, etc.
| .
| dfsbuild is the program used to create the DFS CD image. It is highly
| configurable and can be used to create other custom bootable CD or DVD
| images. You can use dfsbuild to do something as simple as building a
| DFS CD with a custom kernel. Or, you can customize the CD to include a
| completely different set of packages.
| .
| dfsbuild works by obtaining packages from your nearest Debian mirror.
| It will generate an ISO image that contains a bootable Debian system
| generated by installing those packages. Also, it can place all the .debs
| and files needed by cdebootstrap in the image. Thus, the
| generated image can be used to install the base Debian system on a PC as
| well.
> Thanks in advance,
> Luca
An E-mail how helpfull this message was, is appricated.
Cheers
Geert Stappers
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