On Tue 08 May, Justin F. Knotzke wrote: > Hi, > I am looking to make a custom CD with some of our own software put > on the cd in addition to the first binary Debian CD. > I have a few questions. I have read the README and I have created a > Debian CD using the pseudo-image-kit which worked well. However, how do > I: > 1) Add my own packages to the image. > 2) Make it so that those packages are viewable by the user at > install time? You don't use the pseudo-image-kit for this - you need to use Debian-CD which creates a CD with appropraite packages files from an archive of packages. apt-get install debian-cd will get you the packaged version but it you want to make 2.2r3 CDs or woody CDs you need the version from CVS. http://cvs.debian.org/debian-cd/ You can add your own packages by putting them in a local directory next to main. Then they should automatically get noticed, although I think you should also adjust the overrides files, and maybe some other things - I haven't seen a good doc on this yet. > 3) Is there a way to get debian to preselect packages (since each > machine will be the same) without having to ask the user which packages > s/he wants to install? you can make a task package that lists the set you want. If you make it essential it might even get installed automatically (but I'm getting beyond my sphere of knowledge here so I should stop ;-) Wookey -- Aleph One Ltd, Bottisham, CAMBRIDGE, CB5 9BA, UK Tel (00 44) 1223 811679 work: http://www.aleph1.co.uk/ play: http://www.chaos.org.uk/~wookey/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
