> > I'm playing with it now. The first stage is , naturally, to package it. > > Both packages are currently avilable from http://tzafrir.org.il/rapid/ . > > I'll see how it goes. > > After some more playing: > > I started adapting simple-cdd to support LOCAL and LOCALDEBS in CONF.sh. i'll look at your patches when i get a chance... there are a number of relatively simple improvements i'd like to make, but haven't had the time and network access recently. > Next I noticed that there was zero documentation about the requirement > to run as root. Sadly debian-cd not only runs as root, but also edits as > root files under /usr . OK. Let's hope It won't destroy my system. i have never once run simple-cdd scripts as root, so that's probably why there's no documentation about it :P are you building the debian-installer CD from scratch, or using one of the released debian-installer CDs? > debpartial-mirror is *slow* and inefficient at mirroring. It seems to do > the whole mirroring process whenever I run it. Thus running it with > do_mirror=false is a must if you don't have extra hours to spend on > useless downloads. i had good luck using debpartial-mirror with a squid proxy, which helps a lot. thanks! live well, vagrant
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