Note: Allmost all content here will be eventually be revised and merged into the live-manual. Please do not add new content to the wiki, but contribute to the manual directly.
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 systems, 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 are live-helper suite to autobuild images non-interactively, and live-initramfs (DebianLive/live-initramfs) to implement initramfs generation and boot time configuration of a readonly rootfs (squashfs, ext2 and plain directory1) made writable by a unions (aufs) 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/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/HowTo/Step-by-Step
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
Mainly used for netboot. (1)