On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 09:57:05PM +0300, Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu wrote: >Package: cdimage.debian.org >Severity: wishlist > >Installing Debian when debootstrap isn't available can be extremely >inconvenient, because the only alternative is the installer, which is: >- slow >- requires booting the media >- primarily aimed for stable >- inflexible and difficult to customize and/or automate > >A better alternative in such situations is using debootstrapped >tarballs, which can be simply unpacked into a suitable mountpoint and >further configured (similar to Gentoo's stage3 tarballs). It should also >be faster as an installation method than using the Debian Installer. > >Generating them can be quite straightforward, and doesn't even require >root privileges: >$ cdebootstrap --foreign --arch=ARCH [...] >$ tar [...] > >Usecases: >- VM provisioning >- automated installs, possibly handing over to a configuration >management system >- rescue environments >- manual installation from an existing non-Debian OS >- custom setups unsupported by the Debian Installer > >Generally, I don't think the Debian Installer is a good idea in such >cases, and it's best left for interactive installation. > >Please consider distributing Debian in this manner.
Hi! It's an option we're considering for work in the near future; we're thinking of distributing images more than tarballs, though, to make them more useful directly for a number of reasons. Mainly images will be more useful for non-Linux users, I think. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] "This dress doesn't reverse." -- Alden Spiess -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
