Note: Allmost all content here will be eventually be revised and merged into the [http://live.debian.net/manual/ live-manual]. Please do not add new content to the wiki, but [http://live.debian.net/manual/html/meta.html#contributing contribute] to the manual directly.
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] system that can be booted directly from removable media (CD-ROMs, DVDs, USB keys) or from another computer over the network. This allows you to build a Live image Debian just once, and subsequently boot it on multiple machines.
The currently supported architectures are: i386, amd64, sparc and powerpc.
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 now live-initramfs (["DebianLive/live-initramfs"]) 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/Colinux"]
?DebianLive/BuildingImages
- ["DebianLive/Configuration"]
- ["DebianLive/l10n"]
- ["DebianLive/FAQ"]
- ["DebianLive/Troubleshooting"]
- ["DebianLive/Examples"]
- ["DebianLive/Howto/ISO"]
- ["DebianLive/Howto/ISO (multiarch)"]
- ["DebianLive/Howto/USB"] memory stick.
- ["DebianLive/Howto/Persistence"] for USB key live system.
- ["DebianLive/Howto/Custom Artwork"]
["DebianLive/Howto/Custom Install"] Do a custom install for the Debian Live OS on a disc or any FLASH memory.
- ["DebianLive/Howto/Network Image Server"] - netboot, PXE
- ["DebianLive/Howto/Customising Using QEMU"] - Customising Debian live image using QEMU networking to transfer modified files.
- ["DebianLive/Howto/Xen"] - Guide for building a live Xen system
- ["DebianLive/Howto/Cache Packages"] - reduce the time spent downloading deb packages
?DebianLive/HowTo/SmallSizeImage - reduce the live system size
- ["DebianLive/Debian Mirror"] Simple Howto
- ["DebianLive/Syslinux"] - Issues with the syslinux install
[:DebianLive/Virtualization:DebianLive/Virtualisation using QEMU] - test your image
[:DebianLive/Virtualbox:DebianLive/Virtualisation using Virtualbox] - test your image
- ["DebianLive/Webconverger"] - a Web live system
- ["DebianLive/HowTo/LAMP"] - webserver for Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP
Developer
- ["DebianLive/live-initramfs"]
- ["DebianLive/live-helper"]
- ["DebianLive/Wishlist"]
?DebianLive/GetTheSource
Project
- ["Teams/DebianLive"]
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