maybeway36 wrote: > debootstrap is designed to run on any Linux distribution, to > facilitate installations from Red Hat, Slackware and the like. > I realized that live-helper uses debootstrap for the initial stage, > and does most other operations inside the chroot. > This got me to thinking: could live-helper produce a working Debian > GNU/Linux live CD while running on another distro? > The answer is yes!
surprise, surprise :) this was the very aim since the first day of doing debian-live, to have minimal system requirements in order to be able to build a debian-live image on any linux distribution that offers a posix shell and has either cdebootstrap-static (which only requires libc6), or debootstrap.. > There's not that much purpose for making a live CD from another live > CD, but it might be useful for someone. you'll never now. thanks anyway, maybe it even helps making live-helper a bit more popular :) -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~daniel-baumann/ _______________________________________________ debian-live-devel mailing list debian-live-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel
