well, being pleased to hear about debian-oven being inspired by
simple-cdd, i couldn't help but make a new simple-cdd release :)
some of the improvements over previous versions:
simple-cdd (0.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
* automatically include "default" profile
* option to build local package repository
* simplified language and country selection
* added build-time configuration file for profiles
* examples for setting default CD label
* updated freekbox3 and lessdisks profiles
* prompt before over-writing hard-disk partitions by default
* build-simple-cdd: many commandline options added
-- Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@freegeek.org> Mon, 11 Jul 2005 11:28:19 -0600
most of the recent developments for simple-cdd were needed to simplify
creation of a simple installer for freekbox3, freegeek's desktop
distribution for recycled hardware: http://freegeek.org
to download simple-cdd, stick in /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://debian-np.alioth.debian.org/debian unstable main
(also added a "backport" of debpartial-mirror for sarge)
and: apt-get install simple-cdd
or from svn:
svn co svn://svn.debian.org/svn/debian-np/trunk/packages/simple-cdd
i also improved the package description, hopefully this is good enough
for cdd-doc, or were you looking for something more, andreas? :)
Description: create custom debian-installer CDs
simple-cdd is a limited though relatively easy tool to create a customized
debian-installer CD.
.
it includes simple mechanisms to create "profiles" that define common system
configurations, which can be selected during system installation. simple-cdd
also makes it easy to build CDs with language and country settings
pre-configured, or to use a 2.6 kernel by default.
.
this can be used to create a crude "Custom Debian Distribution" using packages
from debian, with pre-configuration of packages that use debconf. custom
configuration scripts can be specified to handle packages that don't support
debconf pre-configuration.
.
testing CD images with qemu is also made simple with a provided script.
it has only been tested with debian-cd from sarge (other than
debpartial-mirror), so if using a new debian-cd or debian-installer, it
may require some tweaks.
in some ways, it might make sense to move simple-cdd from the debian-np
project to the cdd project, as it really is more general than non-profit
use only. if folks wouldn't mind giving me ("vagrant-guest" on alioth)
svn access. :)
and with things like debian-oven and when cddtk has support for building
the installer CDs, hopefully simple-cdd will become obsolete :)
live well,
vagrant
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