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Not yet a script... This is run in the Asia North-East zone from the Debian AMI Account (account number {{{379101102735}}}). Not yet a script... This is run in the Asia North-East zone from the Debian AMI Account (account number {{{379101102735}}}).  The operations in the cloud are controlled from the local computer using programs from the DebPkg:euca2ools package.
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Start the instance with an extra volume of 1 GiB, which will persist after termination (/dev/sdb=:1:false). Pass the script that will format the volume and download Debian-Installer (see below). Start the instance with an extra volume of 1 GiB, which will persist after termination ({{{/dev/sdb=:1:false}}}). Pass the script that will format the volume and download Debian-Installer (see below).

Official Debian-Installer AMIs

Official Amazon Machine Images for the DebianInstaller

AMI build script

Not yet a script... This is run in the Asia North-East zone from the Debian AMI Account (account number 379101102735). The operations in the cloud are controlled from the local computer using programs from the euca2ools package.

The procedure below runs a helper instance with an attached volume of 1 GiB, partitions it, downwoads Debian-Installer on it and sets up a PV-GRUB configuration file to boot the installer. The snapshot of the resulting volume is registered as a machine image.

Using Ubuntu (12.04 LTS Precise amd64 EBS Asia North-East) as long as we do not have Debian images with cloud-init enabled by default.

HELPER_AMI=ami-7609bb77 # Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise amd64 EBS (Asia North-East)

Start the instance with an extra volume of 1 GiB, which will persist after termination (/dev/sdb=:1:false). Pass the script that will format the volume and download Debian-Installer (see below).

HELPER_INSTANCE=$( euca-run-instances \
        --instance-initiated-shutdown-behavior terminate \
        --instance-type t1.micro \
        --block-device-mapping /dev/sdb=:1:false \
        --user-data-file install-debian-installer \
        $HELPER_AMI |
        tee /dev/stderr | grep INSTANCE | awk '{print $2}')

Wait that the boot finished.

while [ ! $(euca-describe-instances $HELPER_INSTANCE | grep INSTANCE | cut -f 6 | tee /dev/stderr) = "running" ]
    do sleep 30
done

Get the volume's identifier

TARGET_VOLUME=$( euca-describe-volumes |
        grep $HELPER_INSTANCE | grep '/dev/sdb' |
        tee /dev/stderr | awk '{print $2}')

Wait that the scripts shuts down the instance.

while [ ! $(euca-describe-instances $HELPER_INSTANCE | grep INSTANCE | cut -f 6 | tee /dev/stderr) = "terminated" ]
    do sleep 30
done

Snapshot the volume and register it as a machine image.

PV_KERNEL=aki-176bf516 # Boot PV-Grub (Asia North-East)

TARGET_SNAPSHOT=$( euca-create-snapshot $TARGET_VOLUME |
        tee /dev/stderr | awk '{print $2}')

while euca-describe-snapshots $TARGET_SNAPSHOT | grep -q pending ; do sleep 30 ; done

euca-register \
    --name test_di \
    --description test_of_debian_installer \
    --snapshot $TARGET_SNAPSHOT \
    --kernel $PV_KERNEL \
    --architecture x86_64
    --root-device-name /dev/sda1

The script install-debian-installer follows here.

# License: CC0

parted -s /dev/xvdb mklabel msdos mkpart primary 0% 100%
mke2fs -L debian-installer /dev/xvdb1 -F
mount LABEL=debian-installer /mnt/

cd /mnt

ARCH=amd64
DIST=wheezy
DI_VERSION=20130613+deb7u1
MIRROR=http://cloudfront.debian.net/
BASEURL=$MIRROR/debian/dists/$DIST/main/installer-$ARCH/$DI_VERSION/images/netboot/xen

wget $BASEURL/initrd.gz $BASEURL/vmlinuz

mkdir -p boot/grub

cat > boot/grub/menu.lst <<__END__
default 0
timeout 3

title  Debian Installer ($DI_VERSION $ARCH)
root   (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz root=LABEL=debian-installer ro console=hvc0 auto=true priority=critical url=http://169.254.169.254/latest/user-data DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text
initrd /initrd.gz
__END__

sleep 30

halt


See also Cloud/AmazonEC2Image, and Cloud.