RE: Creating a base-only cd image?
Greetings,
When potato was unstable and the release candidates were being tested,
there were some net install CD images made. I think I might still have one.
Of course, they are *somewhat* broken. I recall a discussion in which there
was the promise(?) of having such a beastie once the release was actually
released, but I've seen nothing of it. Otherwise, the linuxcare bootable
business card can install debian, but it is slink with a 2.0.36(?) kernel.
BTW, I would LOVE to have the net install CD again!!!
Brooks
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Guthrie [mailto:rguthrie@pobox.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 11:40 AM
> To: debian-cd@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Creating a base-only cd image?
>
>
> Just a suggestion from someone who doesn't know the first thing about
> building a debian cd image from scratch...
>
> I was wondering if anyone had ever considered creating a cd image
> that contained only enough of the system to apt-get everything else
> (from nfs, ftp, or http) after the initial boot. It seems that the
> cd image would be extremely small in comparison, so less bandwidth
> would be wasted building pseudo-images of it. On the user's side of
> things, no more boot floppies needed when they can't copy the base
> system to thier hard-drive, but don't want to spend 5 days creating
> the cd image from behind a 56k connection.
>
> I actually did the latter to get started on debian. I could have
> just configured the base system, and then slowly built my debian
> system from task packages or just individual ones.
>
> What do you think? Wouldn't it be pretty easy to just exclude the
> vast majority of the cd image? Putting this on one of those
> credit-card cd's would be pretty cool..
>
> "Hey Bob, you said Debian was pretty cool. Want to help me install
> it sometime?"
>
> "Sure, why not now?" pulls out wallet, "Here, put this in your cd
> drive and reboot."
>
> --
> Did you know that if you play a Windows 2000 cd backwards, you
> will hear the voice of Satan?
>
> That's nothing! If you play it forward, it'll install Windows 2000.
>
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