On Friday 04 October 2002 2:41 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks, > > I know LFS, but that is not the purpose. > > The purpose is to start from standard debian packages, but > create smaller indexes, ie. not taking all packages. > > E.g. A small end-user WS could only take some graphical > packages, and games, and some productivity apps, and > that is all, maybe a patched version of the stock kernel > with the low-latency and preemptive patch.
What is wrong with just the first (and second) CD only of woody. I know you don't need all 7 - I just made isos of all 7 and blew them on to CDs. Then went and install my system and only used the first CD (of course I am now loading new packages from the net - particularly since I then dist-upgraded to unstable. If you really insist on doing it, apt-move is quite useful to build a local mirror. dpkp-scanpackages is the program you need to make the packages file from such a mirror (you can either download an override file via ftp from debian, or - as is your case, you might want to think about writing from scratch and organising your smaller set of debs into different sections). I guess (though not tried it) that the debian-cd package could be your friend. apt-build might also be useful (again not tried it) -- Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
