This is a collaborative wiki to gather information and to discuss technologies to be 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 Debian Installer.
A Debian Live system is a [http://www.debian.org Debian] operating system preinstalled in some way, that does not require a classical installer to be used. It comes on media, like a cdrom, a usb-stick, or over a network.
In operation, it will require a boot process and hardware discovery (the same as Debian Installer), to launch a preinstalled rootfs.
The development process requires defining the key technologies to implement the kernel generation, the rootfs generation and the whole image generation (["DebianLive/make-live#procedure"]).
Key technologies discussed so far provide a modified casper (["DebianLive/casper"]) from Ubuntu to implement initramfs generation and boot time configuration of readonly rootfs (squashfs and ext2) 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 [http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel list].
User
- ["DebianLive/Download"]
- ["DebianLive/Bugs"]
- ["DebianLive/FAQ"]
- ["DebianLive/Examples"]
- ["DebianLive/Howto/ISO"]
- ["DebianLive/Howto/ISO (multiarch)"]
- ["DebianLive/Howto/ISO (multimedia)"]
- ["DebianLive/Howto/Network Image Server"]
- ["DebianLive/Debian Mirror"] Simple Howto
Developer
- ["DebianLive/Bootloader"]
- ["DebianLive/casper"]
- ["DebianLive/live-package"]
- ["DebianLive/Wishlist"]
Project
- ["DebianLive/Guidelines"]
- ["DebianLive/Team"]
- ["DebianLive/Other Resources"]
- ["DebianLive/Why"]
Other pages (unsupported)
- ["DebianLive/Installer"] - optionally, install Debian onto harddisk or USB using Debian Live
- ["DebianLive/Fromhd"] - to boot from a compressed image on the hard drive.