Backports for live-helper and friends
While live-helper and other live-* packages developed by the DebianLive project are currently not a part of any stable relase, and therefore are only in Lenny and Sid, they will work on Etch as well. You will need the following:
- An Etch backport of cdebootstrap from backports.org.
- The Lenny or Sid version of live-helper from debian.org.
Using Etch cdebootstrap backport
Put this in your /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main
Update the package indices...
apt-get update
...and install cdebootstrap from backports.org:
apt-get install -t etch-backports cdebootstrap
Note: If you put backports.org into your sources.list, by default, there will be no packages upgraded. Therefore, you have to manually specificy etch-backports to tell apt where it should get the package from.
Using Lenny/Sid live-helper on Etch
The live-helper package from Lenny or Sid can be installed on Etch (without upgrading other packages, such as libc6; it's just shell scripts).
1. install cdebootstrap from backports.org (as indicated above)
apt-get install -t etch-backports cdebootstrap
2. install live-helper from testing or unstable
apt-get install -t unstable live-helper
Of course you need the testing or unstable sources in /etc/apt/sources.list for this.
See also: Backports