Re: Debian From Scratch

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> writes:

> On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 12:46:44AM -0700, Stephen Birch wrote:
>
>> Other than debootstrap, does anyone know of a tool that creates the
>> bare minimal debian configuration. It should have just enough to boot
>> and run apt?

cdebootstrap -f minimal

and then make it bootable (e.g. create /dev/console).

If you want to realy cleanup an existing system: debfoster -i

> That is what debootstrap does.  Why "other than debootstrap"?

Because debootstrap fails and fails and fails. cdebootstrap parses the
Packages file and adapts to missing or extra packages or changed
dependencies.

MfG
        Goswin