Re: Debian From Scratch ISO

[Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net>]

On 12/06/15 04:37 PM, Haines Brown wrote:
> I would like to install Debian from Scratch. To do this I need Goerzen's
> Live CD ISO. I finally managed to find it at
> https://people.debian.org/~jgoerzen/rescue-zfs/. File name is
> wheezy-live-rescue-zfs0.6.3-jgoerzen-20141008.iso.
>
> When I boot the ISO in a virtualBox, the boot menu lists Live AMD 64 and
> Install options. It will not boot. I suspect this is a 64 bit ISO, and I
> need a 32 bit. Can anyone point me to one?
>
> Is it difficult instead to build Linux from Scratch and then add to it
> Debian's apt package system?
>
> Haines Brown
There are other ways of building Debian from the ground up but why 
bother? Debian already lets you remove non-essential packages and 
replace default ones with alternatives. The whole point of using a 
distro is that you don't have to do everything from scratch.

You can try Slackware if you want to start with a barebones system and 
build it up, but in my experience, Debian is very good already at doing 
that.