Re: Building Your own Boot Disks
On Thu, 21 Aug 97 16:51 PDT, Bruce Perens <bruce@debian.org> wrote:
>From: timm@n2h2.com (Timm Gleason)
>> Now not wanting to go backward, especially due to the
>> major modifications done to the kernel we are using
>
>Is that the BESS Internet filter? I hope your product still lets you read
>the list, after the language we've been using on debian-user today :-)
>15-20 a month and Debian in every one? Cool!
>
Yes, we use Linux servers for all of our on-site and redirect proxy
servers. We have been using Debian from the beginning because of the
amount of stability and support available.
>If you're developing big changes to the kernel, please try to contribute
>them back into the main kernel source thread.
>
Most of the hacks into the kernel involve max file descriptors and
inodes to allow for greater simultaneous connections. Almost all of
the modifications we have made the real work has been done by someone
else out there. We can get near 1500 simultaneous connections with the
kernel we currently use.
>> like to know if there is any definitive source of information on
>> building installation disks. The new system that loads base off of a
>> CD is great, but with the modified drivers and kernel, I need to know
>> more about these disks.
>
>Sure. You will need two packages: kernel-package and boot-floppies.
>Kernel-package provides the scripts to build a Debian package from
>your custom kernel and calling them from the command line is trivial.
>Boot-floppies provides the scripts to build the boot floppies, and you
>can easily modify that or just change the packages it installs. You will
>also need a complete copy of the Debian "stable" archive plus your
>modifications, and you will need to read the man page for dpkg-scanpackages
>(in the dpkg-dev package) so that you can add your own packages to the
>"Packages" file for your own archive, so that dpkg and dselect will work with
>it.
>
>Once you've done that, you can install the debian-cd package and generate your
>own bootable CDs with your custom kernel if you wish.
>
Burn our own bootable CD's, wow that would be even better than what we
do now!
Timm Gleason
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