Re: What about "Knoppix CD/DVD as Debian installer (next generation)' ?
Hello Gilles,
My time plan broke down, I couldn't make a release before going to india,
and most likely, it won't be pos sible before Cebit to make a new public
release. Sorry. Too much work, too few time.
Thanks for offering translations, but there is not much new that we could translate.
Greetings from New Delhi
-Klaus
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 07:20:47PM -0500, Gilles wrote:
> On January 12th 2006, Klaus Knopper wrote:
>
> And we may be able to replace some knoppix-patched Debian-packages
> (like sysvinit) by the original ones using some script-based "evil
> hacks" instead, in order to make them behave like the earlier live-cd
> versions.
>
> (...)
>
> Anyways. Since you asked, indeed, I could need some help.
>
> The most urgent and probably a big breakthrough also for other
> Debian-installers would be the following:
>
> For the planned "hd-install and update from CD or DVD" feature
> (especially "update" could be exciting), I would need an extension for
> dpkg and apt-get that allows a /etc/apt/sources.list entry like this:
>
> deb installed:/UNIONFS
>
> that doesn't use .deb packages, but a preinstalled system including
> the dpkg database in /var/lib/dpkg. This is supposed to make it
> possible to install debian packages that are already unpacked and
> preinstalled (with the existing and probably modified corresponding /
> etc/ configuration files) from a root directory tree, in this
> example /UNIONFS.
>
> A not-so-advanced workaround would be dpkg-repack'ing every single
> package from the live system, put all the .deb files into a temporary
> directory, create a database with apt-ftparchive, and the use this as
> file:/ resource in sources.list. But why go through all this effort
> and waste space and CPU time when all packages are already installed
> on the medium and a database including all dependencies already
> exists?
>
> With a feature like the above, we could easily make a Live CD or DVD
> that can be installed and updated the standard Debian way, without
> having to use a deb package file repository.
>
> Plus, updating an existing harddisk installation using just the live
> CD or DVD would be possible.
>
> Any comments/ideas/code recommendations for his?
>
> ---------------------------------
>
> There were very few comments on this wonderful project thereafter. Is
> it still alive? I'd like to help, unfortubately IANAP. I could
> provide a french translation from the english translation if nobody
> offers to translate directly from german.
>
> GP
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