On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 03:07:58AM -0800, trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com wrote: > I am seeking information on the creation of a new distribution. What > are some tool names? Google is not playing nice tonight (I can normally > find whatever I need, but there are so many articles on installing > debian that its hard to filter them out and get to what I want). > > I cant chroot into an environment to make the install image without > having stuff already installed, and I would rather not do it that way if > it can be avoided so that my resulting image is clean. Check out the "debootstrap" Debian package which sets up a basic system using a predefined set of components, or alternatively the "chroot-debian" shell script which I use to make the "pocketworkstation.org" builds, that one determines dependencies dynamically and is a bit more flexible about the contents of the installed system. Both involve manually unpacking Debian packages into the chroot, so they are "clean" as far as the resulting system is concerned. My script also re-overwrites all the files using a chrooted "dpkg" so that all files are properly registered in the database, I'm assuming that debootstrap also does that. -Klaus
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