from FTP: cre8 a custom Debain boot CD
Greetings Debians!
You might find my problem too simple, but even after using Linux for some tiny
three years, I could not get a custom Debian boot CD to run the way it was
intended...perhaps cos my brain was emptied by using SuSE Linux the past :-)
Okay, here the prob: I want to settle over to Debian due to security and
clearity issues (means those desktop-oriented dists like SuSE are getting to
untidy). Yet, I do not indend to buy a Deb CD set so far; thus i decided to
test install a basic Debian on my tiny server. This machine does not own a
floppy drive but a CD-ROM only. So I wanted to create a selfmade mini-Debian
of about 50 megs of space. Via ftp I downloaded these files from the Potato
release (Woody comes later...):
//from the udma66 tree:
-base2.2.tgz
-drivers.tgz
-linux
-rescue.bin (1.44)
-root.bin (1.44)
Well, when doing a install from scratch using floppy disks, there is no
question how to install Debian, but when using a CD???...
Naively, I started to make an ISO img including the expanded dirtree
contained in the base2.2 tarball and added the kernel to /boot.
In order to make a bootabel CD, I told mkisofs to use rescue.bin as boot
image. But - not wondering - it booted like from floppy querying the root.bin.
Uhoh! How to get it right? Means, a boot CD that starts and runs the "Debian
menu" (do not know the official name - you know that initial "ASCII menu").
I have spent two complete days in searching diff. newsgroups, webpages and of
course the (besides that small leak) install instructions included in the ftp
dirs. Additinally, I "lost" some CDs while trying around.
Any help is appreciated; thanx in advance,
seeya, Timo Boewing
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