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explain why it's pulled from sid
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add to your sources.list: | because simple-cdd is not part of etch, we need to install it from sid. add to your sources.list: |
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comment out the lines in /etc/apt/sources.list, or configure apt pinning so it doesn't pull in unstable packages. | comment out the lines in /etc/apt/sources.list, or configure apt pinning so it doesn't pull in unstable packages |
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build a basic CD, and include simple-cdd-profiles .udeb from sid: | build a basic CD, and include simple-cdd-profiles .udeb from sid (simple-cdd-profiles is not part of etch): |
if you want to try ["Simple-CDD"], on an etch system:
mkdir ~/my-simple-cdd
cd ~/my-simple-cdd
because simple-cdd is not part of etch, we need to install it from sid. add to your sources.list:
echo deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian sid main >> /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-get update
apt-get -t stable install simple-cdd
apt-get update
comment out the lines in /etc/apt/sources.list, or configure apt pinning so it doesn't pull in unstable packages
build a basic CD, and include simple-cdd-profiles .udeb from sid (simple-cdd-profiles is not part of etch):
build-simple-cdd --profiles-udeb-dist sid
this will create a partial package mirror in the dir "tmp/mirror", and if all goes well, an .iso CD image in the "images" dir when it is finished. if this step doesn't work, you need to figure out why before trying more complicated things.
create a profile named NAME:
mkdir profiles
for p in list of packages you want installed ; do echo $p >> profiles/NAME.packages ; done
note that you should not include package dependencies, but only the packages you actually want.
build the CD with selected profile NAME, and include simple-cdd-profiles .udeb from sid:
build-simple-cdd --profiles NAME --profiles-udeb-dist sid
this should create an .iso CD image in the "images" dir when it is finished with your custom profile.
use qemu to test:
apt-get install qemu
build-simple-cdd --qemu --profiles NAME
optional features:
if you want debconf preseeding, put a debconf-set-selections compatible file into profiles/NAME.preseed
if you want a custom post-install script, place it in profiles/NAME.postinst
for more options:
build-simple-cdd --help
adapted from: http://lists.debian.org/debian-custom/2006/12/msg00001.html
Howto build the install cd with a custom debian Installer (if you want to add a driver that is not yet supported by the official debian installer):
First build the custom ["DebianInstaller"].
Add this value to the NAME.conf file of your profile: custom_installer="/path/to/debian/installer/"
In the provided path you should have this kind of directory tree: (architecture)/images/ where architecture could be for instance i386.
Copy the contents of the dest directory in your debian installer build directory to /path/to/debian/installer/(architecture)/images/
Next specify a local packages directory (add the parameter --local-packages /path/to/localpackages/directory/ to build-simple-cdd). Copy all your custom udebs to that directory.
After that, you want to make sure the system will reboot correctly after installation and provide a custom kernel:
Build the custom kernel
Add it to the /path/to/localpackages/directory/ and add the package name to the NAME.packages file for your profile.
If the kernel package name exists in the official repositories, make sure its version is greater or equal to the version in the debian mirror, to prevent simple-cdd from downloading it.
How to deal with missing udeb modules for your d-i kernel
Due to the new etch update that uses a 2.6.18-5 kernel rather than 2.6.18-4, you may have problems building a lenny image, since 2.6.18-5 udeb modules are not in lenny repository. It means that your d-i is running 2.6.18-5 kernel while you are trying to load 2.6.18.4 modules during the installation of your new debian image. To solve this problem, there is a new feature in simple-cdd version 0.3.4. Just pass 'etch' to extra_udeb_dist var before running simple-cdd:
export extra_udeb_dist=etch
or use the --extra-udeb-dist commandline option:
build-simple-cdd --extra-udeb-dist etch