On Sun, 22 Jun 2014 16:57:30 +0200 Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> wrote: > What is the best debian way? live-build can not be used, as there > are some manually copied files on my system, I want to preserve > (i.e. my own wordlists) and some applications, which are not > available as debian packages. As a huge lazy person (vital to be, in IT;), I wouldn't start from scratch. I'd start from an existing CD, dump it as an ISO image, then add/modify this ISO and finally burn it on a new CD. > - it should be installable, when the user needs it This might be a problem as you wanna use non-Debian pgms: may be a good way would be to package these pgms (? others will tell). > - the installation should be automatically (just overwrite the > complete harddrive) You shouldn't, as in a few months the risk to have unsupported hardware will grow up (unless you continually upgrade your image, which might be almost a full time work). Imagine your Ethernet|Wifi I/F isn't supported (eg: missing firmware on your CD)… bad weather it is, isn't it? On the other hand, you could reduce the number of questions asked by your installer (to the important ones) and "man of the street"-ize it. eg: you plan the IP address will _always_ be delivered by the user's ADSL box, add text explaining what to do to set the ADSL box as a DHCP svr in simple words, why doing that, etc. Of course, you _could_ completely automatize the installation process, but it would take a lot of _hard_ work to take _any_ case in account. So, the question behind the question is: is it worth it to spend weeks (or even months, depending on your skills, speed and free time) to build a sometimes-stable CD from scratch? Now, if the goal is just to replicate an existing installation, there is FAI, which provides easy remote installation (IIRC, it can be secured through a SSH tunnel - to be checked). -- Man is not made to work, the proof is that it exhausts him. -- Voltaire
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