Re: minimal CD construction?
I would use apt-move sync to create a local archive of your own system.
That's what I did. I then used pgi to create an ISO image with the PGI
installer.
The other thing you could do is create a local archive with apt-move sync,
then use the bare minimum of Debian's installation system. Create a
directory and use the following script to create the debian installer
in minimal fashion:
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mkdir images-1.44
cd images-1.44
wget ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/rescue.bin
wget ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/root.bin
cd ..
mkdir images-2.88
cd images-2.88
wget ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/disks-i386/current/images-2.88/rescue.bin
cd ..
wget ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/disks-i386/current/drivers.tgz
wget ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/disks-i386/base-images-current/basedebs.tar
cat > makeiso.sh << EOF
mkisofs -o /tmp/debian.iso -R -V "Debian GNU/Linux" -v \
-T -d -D -N -b images-2.88/rescue.bin -c rescue.cat \
-A "Debian GNU/Linux" .
EOF
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Its crude, I know, but put your apt-move archive in this directory and you
have an instant CD of your system. You could even use
dpkg --get-selections > somefile.dselect
to create a file to install the software with:
cat somefile.dselect | dpkg --set-selections
dselect install
And it should install all the software from the CD's apt-move archive.
There are alot of tricks I dont remember now, but thats how I created a
"hand out" cd.
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On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Cameron L. Spitzer wrote:
>
> I will be handing out CDs at a convention in a
> couple of weeks.
> The CDs will contain less than 100 MB of literature
> in files and the remaining space is available for a
> Debian base installer and X.
> If I take all files from one of the network inst ISO images and
> add my literature files, obviously the resulting ISO isn't
> bootable any more. Is there a reasonably simple way
> to add files to a working network-install Debian ISO image?
> Is there a particularly good network inst ISO to start with?
>
> TIA
>
> Cameron
>
>
>
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