Dave Higgins wrote: > My company is producing a value-added distribution. The base system > is Debian GPL. We're adding a package that has our IP in it. We'll > host a repository that maintains the Debian packages and our > packages. While we could just do a "standard" distribution, we do > want to change some defaults to send it out the door. I think Debian will make a great operating system distribution for you and will be very easy for you to use and set up. I don't know the best practices for the branding of it. I think it would be good to be careful about how things are labeled so that this isn't confused with a standard stock Debian installation disk. People are already confused thinking that Ubuntu and Mint are Debian for examples and yet those are appropriately and clearly labeled otherwise. Things to be careful of in terms of licensing are if your packages extend a copyleft'd package then you would need to comply with the terms of the copyleft in order to distribute it. And of course you are required to provide sources for any of the copyleft'd parts. But I will assume you are familiar with the licensing issues and have that handled. > I need a CD that has the a 3.0 kernel and other more recent versions > of software then is in the official repository. > > Simple-CD and Debian Live Magic work great to create a minimal > install iso, but how do I put the 3.0.4 kernel packages in place? I believe when you create the iso image you can specify to include specific packages. To be honest I haven't done that step in recent memory and so I have no suggestions for you. Sorry. I was hoping it was going to be something simple like modifying the initrd or something. :-) I have been working with netbooting a lot lately and have mostly left physical media behind. But as I recall when using Debian Live to create an image it is possible to specify specific packages to be included. I believe you can specify additional repositories and as such can include backports for example for a newer kernel. Or other such options. I think that is the right place to start looking. Here are some references. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/HowTo/Step-by-Step http://live.debian.net/manual/en/html/customizing-package-installation.html#417 Perhaps someone else will have a better suggestion. Bob
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