This is a collaborative wiki to gather information and to discuss technologies used to produce a complex framework to enable production of official Debian Live systems1, that uses as much as possible official Debian packages and, for optional hard disk installation, the DebianInstaller.
A Debian Live system is a Debian system that can be booted directly from removable media (CD-ROMs, DVDs, USB keys) or from another computer over the network. This allows you to build a Live image Debian just once, and subsequently boot it on multiple machines.
The currently supported architectures are: i386, amd64, sparc and powerpc.
Key technologies adopted so far includes a Debian version2 of now live-initramfs (DebianLive/live-initramfs) from Ubuntu to implement initramfs generation and boot time configuration of readonly rootfs (squashfs, ext2 and plain directory3) made writable by a unions (unionfs) with a ramdisk or customizable writable fs.
Resources for information is http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/ and to discuss are this wiki, the IRC channel #debian-live at oftc ( irc://irc.oftc.net/#debian-live/ ) and the mailing list.
User
DebianLive/Beryl - the fancy 3D desktop with your live
DebianLive/Howto/USB memory stick.
DebianLive/Howto/Persistence for USB key live system.
DebianLive/Howto/Custom Install Do a custom install for the Debian Live OS on a disc or any FLASH memory.
DebianLive/Howto/Network Image Server - netboot, PXE
DebianLive/Howto/Customising Using QEMU - Customising Debian live image using QEMU networking to transfer modified files.
DebianLive/Howto/Xen - Guide for building a live Xen system
DebianLive/Howto/Cache Packages - reduce the time spent downloading deb packages
DebianLive/HowTo/SmallSizeImage - reduce the live system size
DebianLive/Debian Mirror Simple Howto
DebianLive/Syslinux - Issues with the syslinux install
DebianLive/Virtualisation using QEMU - test your image
DebianLive/Virtualisation using Virtualbox - test your image
DebianLive/Webconverger - a Web live system
DebianLive/HowTo/LAMP - webserver for Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP
Developer
Project
Other pages (unsupported)
english
DebianLive/Fromhd - to boot from a compressed image on the hard drive.
DebianLive/HdInstallation - install DebianLive onto a Hard disk, using DebianInstall.
DebianLive/HelperTree - a map of the lh_* scripts and their depends.
Debian_Live definition
german
german translation (work in progress)
http://www.linux-magazin.de/online_artikel/workshop_debian_live_system_mit_etch article in linux-magazin.de