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?FootNote(semi-official builds are already in place at project url.), that uses as much as possible official Debian packages and, for optional hard disk installation, the DebianInstaller.
A Debian Live system is a [http://www.debian.org Debian] operating system preinstalled on a media, that does not require a classical installer to be used (?LiveDistro). It comes on media, like a cdrom, a ["usb stick"], or over a network.
The development process defined the key technologies to implement the rootfs generation and the whole image generation (["DebianLive/make-live"]).
Key technologies adopted so far includes a debian version?FootNote(Although they should diverge for a very few lines after ubuntu's not so frequents re-merges.) of casper (["DebianLive/casper"]) from Ubuntu to implement initramfs generation and boot time configuration of readonly rootfs (squashfs, ext2 and plain directory?FootNote(Mainly used for netboot.)) 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/CheatCodes"] an extract from casper manpage.
- ["DebianLive/Download"]
- ["DebianLive/Bugs"]
["?DebianLive/BuildingImages"]
- ["DebianLive/Configuration"]
- ["DebianLive/l10n"]
- ["DebianLive/FAQ"]
- ["DebianLive/Examples"]
- ["DebianLive/Howto/ISO"]
- ["DebianLive/Howto/ISO (multiarch)"]
- ["DebianLive/Howto/ISO (multimedia)"]
- ["DebianLive/Howto/USB"] memory stick.
- ["DebianLive/Howto/Network Image Server"]
- ["DebianLive/Debian Mirror"] Simple Howto
- ["DebianLive/Virtualization"]
Developer
- ["DebianLive/Bootloader"]
- ["DebianLive/casper"]
- ["DebianLive/live-package"]
- ["Live-helper"].
- ["DebianLive/Wishlist"]
Project
- ["DebianLive/Guidelines"]
- ["DebianLive/Team"]
- ["DebianLive/Other Resources"]
- ["DebianLive/Reuse"]
- ["DebianLive/Why"]
Other pages (unsupported)
- ["DebianLive/Fromhd"] - to boot from a compressed ["image"] on the hard drive.
["?DebianLive/HdInstallation"] - install DebianLive in a Hard disk.
?BootFloppy .
[http://layer-acht.org/slides/20070115_debian-live_LCA2007.odp Presentation on Debian-Live]
[http://wiki.skolelinux.de/DebianLive german translation] (work in progress)