First of all, thanks very much for your
reply and the update to the wiki. It sounds like I need to do more
research into the ubuntu process. I was thinking that since their
"alternate" installer CD uses d-i that they would create disks
the debian way. Speaking of the debian way, It looks to me like the
debian-cd process can indeed create an ISO. If you look at the tools
directory in debian-cd there is a make_image script that appears to call
mkisofs.
I am still thrashing out trying to get
debian-cd to work, and am making slow progress. Of course if I get
stuck I'll have more questions. ;)
Josh Cronemeyer
Daniel Dickinson <cshore@fionavar.ca>
05/29/08 08:35 PM
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debian-cd@lists.debian.org
cc
Josh Cronemeyer <jcroneme@thoughtworks.com>
Subject
Re: figuring out do_custom_download.pl
Here's what I'm adding to the wiki, you may find it
helpful.
'''NOTE''' Using a full mirror, or a mostly full mirror is best
practice. You should only use a partial mirror if you absolutely
must
(e.g. due to disk constraints) and realize that it is unsupported.
=== Create a mirror of the Debian archive for Apt ===
==== Option 1: Using debmirror ====
Frans Pop has created a wrapper script for this which is
[http://alioth.debian.org/~fjp/debmirror/ available from alioth]. A
README explains how to use it. This is the preferred approach.
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