i am very happy to annouce that a version of simple-cdd that works with etch is nearly finished. i've tested it using debian-installe RC1, and it seems to be working fine.
http://wiki.debian.org/Simple-CDD many thanks to Gustavo Franco (a.k.a. stratus) for doing much of the work to get simple-cdd back in shape. thanks also to Frans Pop for help troubleshooting debian-installer issues. hopefully, with a little more testing, we will see an upload to debian soon. the major new change (since the sarge-oriented version) is that it uses a .udeb to integrate into debian-installer. this udeb is simply a skeletal infrastructure for a CDD to select packages for installation, do debconf preseeding/preconfiguration, and run custom post-install scripts. you can define several profiles, with different package/preseeding/post-install sets and select them at install time. feedback would definitely be appreciated. if you want to give it a try, on an etch system: apt-get install bzr rsync debian-cd reprepro apt-utils wget debhelper cdbs libdebian-installer4-dev libdebconfclient0-dev bzr get http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/bzr/simple-cdd/etch-simple-cdd cd etch-simple-cdd create a profile named NAME: echo list of packages you want installed > profiles/NAME.packages for debconf preseeding, put a debconf-set-selections compatible file into profiles/NAME.preseed for a custom post-install script, place it in profiles/NAME.postinst debuild -us -uc -I.bzr -b (to build the .udeb) ./build-simple-cdd --profiles NAME --local-packages ../simple-cdd-profiles_0.3.0~1_all.udeb this will create a partial package mirror in the dir "mirror", and if all goes well, an .iso file in the "images" dir. (alternately, use ./qemu-test instead of ./build-simple-cdd, which will call build-simple-cdd and attempt to boot the CD with qemu) try "./build-simple-cdd --help" for more options there's a few changes i'd like to finish soon, mentioned in the TODO file. live well, vagrant -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
