Hi Richard,
On 06/14/2016 04:21 PM, richard lucassen <[email protected]> wrote:
I run a PXE server. For Debian I can download an "initrd.gz" and a
"vmlinuz" to start a net install. Each version has its own
vmlinuz/initrd.gz. The repository I use is an apt-cacher-ng proxy,
this works like a charm. Has this been realized for Devuan yet? And if
yes, does someone have a URL pointing to these two files?
It depends on your purposes. For example, an initrd.gz taken from a
netinst image will not be valid for a live system, because it doesn't
contain the live-install udeb package, which is essential for a live image.
But you can build your own initrd.gz and vmlinuz building debian-installer:
*HOW TO BUILD DEVUAN-INSTALLER*
1) Download the sources:
apt-get source debian-installer
2) Check the build dependencies and install them:
cd debian-installer-201507023+devuan.alpha4
dpkg-checkbuilddeps
apt-get install ... bla bla bla ...
3) Download the udeb packages using debmirror:
debmirror -h ftp.es.mirror.devuan.org \
--dist=jessie \
--root=/merged \
--di-arch=i386,amd64,armhf \
--section=main/debian-installer \
--nosource \
--progress \
--ignore-release-gpg \
--method http \
--diff=none \
/home/richard/localudebs
4) Customize your *.udeb pcakages, if you want. For example rootskel-gtk.
5) Copy all the *.udeb packages to
debian-installer-201507023+devuan.alpha4/localudebs and build d-i:
cd build
make build_cdrom_isolinux
The first attempt allways fails. No worries :)
Copy the content of the sources.list.udeb -generated automatically
during the failed attempt- into a new file named sources.list.udeb.local
In my case, the content of this file is:
# This file is automatically generated, edit sources.list.udeb.local
instead.
deb [trusted=yes]
copy:/home/aitor/d-i/debian-installer-201507023+devuan.alpha4/build/
localudebs/
deb http://packages.devuan.org/merged jessie main/debian-installer
6) Clean the content generated by the failed attempt and try again:
apt-get autoremove
make build_cdrom_isolinux
The initrd.gz and the vmlinuz will be generated in the dest folder :)
HTH,
Aitor.
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