On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 03:56:19AM -0500, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > What would I need to do to make a minimal install CD for Woody. > > What I would like to do is have the kernel, ramdisk, drivers and base on > the CD, then be able to boot off the CD, prepare my filesystems, install > the base, but then do the rest of the installation over the network. > > This would be helpful for people like me who have internet connections > too slow to download an ISO. If I only download the packages I need, it > takes a lot less time than downloading a CD image. But it would also > mean I could do an installation wherever I happen to be, without hauling > around any floppies (I usually bring a binder of CD's with me when I > travel). > > It seems to me everything I would need is available from the debian > website, but I would need to configure a bootable CD somehow. > > It seems to me I could write a shell script that would pull all the > necessary files down and burn a CD out of it. Then I could post the > script on my website, and I expect others would find it useful. > > Mike first do: apt-get install debian-cd (here's the docs and the script you were searching for) second: you can mount whit ftpfs a debian ftp site, so you don't need the whole mirror downloaded on your hd ;-) ftpfs tarball: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ftpfs/ ftpfs man: http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/4/ftpfs next: enjoy :-) Luca Pasquali (keta)
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