You need a disk image to hold the operating system, tools, chroots, and such. 2GB is a practical lower limit on size. My buildds have 10GB for multiple choots and leftover buildd trees. Don't forget swap space.

You can download an existing disk image or create one from scratch. Aranym can be configured to use two disk images at a time.

Scratch

You need to create the disk image file before aranym will do anything with it. Then you can use the aranym menu to create a custom disk image.

echo blah > disk1.img
aranym-mmu -G

Choose Disk from the menu and set the path for Hard disk IDE0 to point to the image file you created. Set the Disk Size to your desired size. Hit Generate Disk Image and allow the file to be overwritten. You will need to note the Cylinders, Heads, and Sectors per track.

Since a disk size of 4096MB has Cylinders = 8322, Heads = 16, and Sectors per track = 63 and creates a file of size 4294950912. We can also do the following.

dd if=/dev/zero of=disk1.img count=4294950912

or to be sparse.

dd if=/dev/zero of=disk1.img bs=1 count=0 seek=4294950912

A 10GB disk would have Cylinders = 20805 and a file size of 10737377280.

You need some minor changes to the LILO section of your Aranym/Configuration file to boot DebianInstaller.

Args = root=/dev/ram console=tty fb=false debug=par suite=etch-m68k modules=etch-support
Ramdisk = initrd.gz

Where Ramdisk comes from DebianInstaller and suite=etch-m68k modules=etch-support are required for etch-m68k installation.

You also need to have the FastRAM set to something like 64. Larger numbers cause problems with debian-installer, but not later on the installed system (it's ramdisk related).

Debian Installer

DebianInstaller lends itself to answering the questions as you go.

Preseeding

More to follow. I plan on documenting my d-i regression testing config here with notes.