How to build my own installer/application
We use debian for development at work. We'd like to deploy an end user
system based on it now too. Our deployed application is a dedicated box
inside of a large piece of machinery. I am borderline comfortable with
downloading iso's and doing netinst based installations. For my
development box, I found Libranet really nice. We have our own mirror of
the testing/stable trees on one of our servers so that we can do network
builds internally. But I've not had any experience in setting up my own
little "micro-distro". What I want is a very minimal set of packages for
console mode stuff. I've built a box up using a netinst CD and trimmed
it down to my minimal requirements. It ends up with 111 packages. Also,
we have our own kernel/modules/libraries (2.4.19 with the development
versions of 1394 drivers and libraries), that I presumably need to make
packages out of. And of course there's an actual program which does the
processing, which I'll need to turn into a package. What I haven't
tackled yet, is how to get that dedicated box switched over to grub and
reiserfs. What I want to be able to do is have a minimal boot media
(preferrably an IDE MagnetoOptical drive) which can be configured to
either boot and install from our local network, or contain all of the
packages locally on the MO and install from there. And I want the
installer to install grub and reiserfs, like the Libranet installer does.
I'm looking for any links, tips, ideas, etc, I can get my hand on to try
and learn the various things I ought to understand to get this
accomplished. I have read the debian FAQ. And am doing some googling. It
sounds like if I could find some of the people involved with the "Linux
for Hams" project or anyone else who has had to build up an "automated
install process for dedicated Linux processors", that would be really good.
I apologize if this is the wrong list to ask on, and would appreciate
any pointers to more relevant places if it so be.
TIA
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Travis Griggs
Key Technology
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