Re: making a minimal CD

[Jorge.Lehner@gmx.net]

Hello!

On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 12:26:03PM -0500, Juergen Fiedler wrote:
...
> I got the debian-cd package from CVS, but it seems somewhat
> inaccessible. I can't even figure out how best to create the local
> mirror that it requires. Is there any in-depth documentation on that

I have been doing this with relatively usable results, the following
way:

- Installed the apt-move package, which I use to create a mirror.
  apt-move sync downloads just every package I have installed in my
  debian system.

- Copied the /boot, /tools, /indices, 
  /debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/ directories from the
  original binary CD 1 to my mirror (simply /var/www/debian)
  along with some README files and other stuff searched for by
  debian-cd.

- Installed the debian-cd package and configured CONF.sh

How to make the CD?, I will paste my instruction list, but your milage
may vary, it does for me too:


    * as root
    * in a terminal
    * in the directory /usr/share/debian-cd

issue the following commands

   1. cd /usr/share/debian-cd (yet done)
   2. . CONF.sh
   3. make distclean
   4. make mirrorcheck
   5. make bin-list COMPLETE=1
   6. make -k bootable

      -k: while some problems are not resolved

Yields an error which I ignore.

   7. make packages

yields:      ( /var/www/debian/indices/override.potato.main.gz: No
such file or directory
/var/www/debian/indices-non-US/override.potato.main.gz: No such file
or directory /var/www/debian/indices/override.potato.contrib.gz: No
such file or directory
/var/www/debian/indices-non-US/override.potato.contrib.gz: No such
file or directory /var/www/debian/indices/override.potato.non-free.gz:
No such file or directory
/var/www/debian/indices-non-US/override.potato.non-free.gz: No such
file or directory ) etc. etc.

   8. make bin-md5mlist
   9. make bin-images


Best regards,

     Jorge-León