RE: Building a small distribution, reprise,
I am using bootcd for this purpose. I install a minimal debian system, configure the kernel
like i want to have it and then i take a snapshot of the minmal debian machines harddrive and
put it into a iso and burn it. Then on another machine i simply insert the cd and transfer the
whole contants of the cd to the harddrive and voila you have two identical machine.
Then i have made an own cd2 which has the packages the system needs to make it still
small but very strict in which packages that is allowed to install. And on top that
i've made 4 different scripts to install the machine as 4 different types, i.e server,
workstation, database server, web server.
Package: bootcd 2.21
run your system from cd without need for disks.
Copy your running Debian System on CD with the command bootcdwrite. If your system has no CD-Writer you can build a bootcd via NFS on a remote System with CD-Writer or you can only create an ISO image. When you run your system from CD you do not need any disks. All changes will be done in ram. To reuse this changes at next boot time you can save them on FLOPPY with the command bootcdflopcp. If booting from your CD-drive is not supported, booting from FLOPPY is possible. It is possible to install a new system from the running CD with the command bootcd2disk. Bootcd2disk can also find a target disk, format it and make it bootable automatically. Bootcd also supports parisc/hppa, initrd root fs, devfs and syslinux/isolinux.
-----Original Message-----
From: jurgen.defurne@philips.com [mailto:jurgen.defurne@philips.com]
Sent: den 8 oktober 2002 08:31
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Building a small distribution, reprise,
Dear all,
I think that I have not stated clear what I want to do with Debian.
Some here thought that I wanted to install Debian, but I use it
already three years on three computers, so that is not my
problem.
For me, Debian is a giant collection of parts, governed by
a policy, the Debian installer and the package management
system.
Currently, the complete Debian system takes up 7 CD's. This
is fine for me, but not to recycle small systems.
I want to create a subset of the current Debian distribution,
using only standard components that are in the standard
stable distribution.
My problem is this I think :
Once I have chosen the packages that I want in it, how do
I compile everything together so that I get a bootable CD
with the standard Debian layout, but much smaller indices
and less packages, so that I can e.g. offer a distribution
on only one or two CD's ?
Regards,
Jurgen Defurne
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