Re: Custom cd's
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 11:20:21AM -0400, Ed Street wrote: Hello, I was wondering if anyone know of any methods where I could customize a debian cd set with just the packages I want and scaled down so it would fit on a mini and/or business card/credit card cd. To give you some idea the size requirments Full cd = 650 megs Mini cd = 180 megs biz card cd = 51 megs Credit card cd = 52 megs Note these are the capacity of the blanks that I use and the size/shape does vary on the latter 2. There is http://cvs.debian.org/boot-floppies/i386-specials/mini-iso.sh which creates an ISO with base-only pkgs, from basedebs.tar. Alternatively I wrote this little script that lets you put whichever debs you want on there. Tried it with the b-f2.4 flavour. With just the base debs on there the ISO is 31MB. It doesn't provide any way to automatically install non-base debs that are on the ISO, but you can always apt-get install them once the system is up. Richard #!/bin/sh # You should have a dir $DEBS containing all the .debs you want on # the ISO. You should have at least the base debs, as listed by # # debootstrap --arch i386 --print-debs woody # # You might populate that dir by grabbing basedebs.tar from the archive. # You should have a copy of the boot-floppies dir from an archive in # $DISKS, and set $FLAVOUR to the one you want on your ISO (e.g. bf2.4) set -e DEBS=./debs DISKS=/mirror/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current FLAVOUR=bf2.4 ISO=mini.iso WORKDIR=./work rm -f $ISO rm -rf $WORKDIR mkdir -p $WORKDIR ( cd $WORKDIR; ln -s . debian ) mkdir $WORKDIR/.disk echo Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 prerelease Woody ($(date '+%Y%m%d')) $WORKDIR/.disk/info touch $WORKDIR/.disk/kernel_installable touch $WORKDIR/.disk/base_installable mkdir -p $WORKDIR/pool cp $DEBS/* $WORKDIR/pool mkdir $WORKDIR/boot mkdir -p $WORKDIR/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/$FLAVOUR cp $DISKS/images-2.88/$FLAVOUR/rescue.bin $WORKDIR/boot cp $DISKS/images-1.44/$FLAVOUR/rescue.bin $WORKDIR/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/$FLAVOUR mkdir -p $WORKDIR/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/$FLAVOUR cp $DISKS/$FLAVOUR/drivers.tgz $WORKDIR/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/$FLAVOUR mkdir -p $WORKDIR/dists/woody/main/binary-i386 cat $WORKDIR/dists/woody/main/binary-i386/Release EOF Archive: woody Component: main Origin: Debian Label: Debian Architecture: i386 EOF ( cd $WORKDIR; dpkg-scanpackages pool /dev/null \ dists/woody/main/binary-i386/Packages cd dists/woody cat Release EOF Origin: Debian Label: Debian Suite: testing Codename: woody Architectures: i386 Components: main Description: Debian Woody - Not Released EOF echo DATE: `date -R` Release echo md5sum: Release for i in Release Packages do echo '' `md5sum main/binary-i386/$i | \ cut -d' ' -f1` `wc -c main/binary-i386/$i` Release done ) mkisofs -J -r -b boot/rescue.bin -o $ISO $WORKDIR
RE: Custom cd's
Hello, I tried one of those, had to do some hack for bf2.4. This I what I'm trying to do. I have a dump/restore image file or about 40 megs (cd #2) I boot with cd #1 w/ bf 2.4 and base only (but I need the dump/restore package on cd #1) and restore from cd #2 to the newly created filesystem. Ed -Original Message- From: Richard Hirst [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2002 9:07 AM To: Ed Street Cc: 'debian-cd' Subject: Re: Custom cd's On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 11:20:21AM -0400, Ed Street wrote: Hello, I was wondering if anyone know of any methods where I could customize a debian cd set with just the packages I want and scaled down so it would fit on a mini and/or business card/credit card cd. To give you some idea the size requirments Full cd = 650 megs Mini cd = 180 megs biz card cd = 51 megs Credit card cd = 52 megs Note these are the capacity of the blanks that I use and the size/shape does vary on the latter 2. There is http://cvs.debian.org/boot-floppies/i386-specials/mini-iso.sh which creates an ISO with base-only pkgs, from basedebs.tar. Alternatively I wrote this little script that lets you put whichever debs you want on there. Tried it with the b-f2.4 flavour. With just the base debs on there the ISO is 31MB. It doesn't provide any way to automatically install non-base debs that are on the ISO, but you can always apt-get install them once the system is up. Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Custom cd's
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 11:20:21AM -0400, Ed Street wrote: I was wondering if anyone know of any methods where I could customize a debian cd set with just the packages I want and scaled down so it would fit on a mini and/or business card/credit card cd. To give you some idea the size requirments Hi Ed- if you use the debian-cd scripts to build CDs, you basically just give it a list of packages at one stage during the process and specify a size limit for the ISO. Full cd = 650 megs Mini cd = 180 megs biz card cd = 51 megs Credit card cd = 52 megs The woody-mini-i386-1.raw file I make with a cut-down packages list is 161Mb. I'm not sure what you'd do to get it down to 50. Go axe-happy on the package list though I guess :} SRH -- Steve Haslam http://www.arise.demon.co.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Maintainer [EMAIL PROTECTED] but I won't admit to needing you I'll never say that's true, not to you [sister machine gun] msg03910/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Custom cd's
Is this the method people are using the build the minimal netinst type cd's aswell? It seems like overkill to have a full debian mirror to build a 50-70 meg image. -stephen On Thu, 30 May 2002, Steve Haslam wrote: SH On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 11:20:21AM -0400, Ed Street wrote: SH I was wondering if anyone know of any methods where I could customize a SH debian cd set with just the packages I want and scaled down so it would SH fit on a mini and/or business card/credit card cd. To give you some SH idea the size requirments SH SH Hi Ed- if you use the debian-cd scripts to build CDs, you basically just SH give it a list of packages at one stage during the process and specify a SH size limit for the ISO. SH SH Full cd = 650 megs SH Mini cd = 180 megs SH biz card cd = 51 megs SH Credit card cd = 52 megs SH SH The woody-mini-i386-1.raw file I make with a cut-down packages list is SH 161Mb. I'm not sure what you'd do to get it down to 50. Go axe-happy on the SH package list though I guess :} SH SH SRH SH -- Stephen Mulcahy, Software Engineer, AO - Multivendor Systems Engineering, HP Services, Hewlett-Packard Company, Ballybrit Business Park, Galway, Ireland tel: +353-91-754584 / mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Custom cd's
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 07:19:31PM +0100, Stephen Mulcahy wrote: Is this the method people are using the build the minimal netinst type cd's aswell? It seems like overkill to have a full debian mirror to build a 50-70 meg image. It's what I'm using, but yes it's overkill. Especially since it has to cope with installing different kernels on different CD's etc.. which is just irrelevant for building small images. But I don't know any alternatives atm. SRH -- Steve Haslam http://www.arise.demon.co.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Maintainer [EMAIL PROTECTED] but I won't admit to needing you I'll never say that's true, not to you [sister machine gun] msg03912/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Custom cd's
On Thu, 30 May 2002, Steve Haslam wrote: SH On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 07:19:31PM +0100, Stephen Mulcahy wrote: SH Is this the method people are using the build the minimal netinst type SH cd's aswell? It seems like overkill to have a full debian mirror to SH build a 50-70 meg image. SH SH It's what I'm using, but yes it's overkill. Especially since it has to cope SH with installing different kernels on different CD's etc.. which is just SH irrelevant for building small images. But I don't know any alternatives atm. Would the author(s) of debian-cd care to provide an outline of the major steps that debian-cd performs in constructing an image - it would help others wanting to put together similar tools for such tasks (I know, I know, documentation is evil .. but it can be useful ;) I'm thinking of something that explains things to the level of making a bootable image, copying in packages, creating a rescue disk image, etc. (excuse me if this is gibberish, I'm not very familiar with the process currently but would like an alternative to mounting existing netinst images with a loopback device and inserting items into them). Thanks, -stephen -- Stephen Mulcahy, Software Engineer, AO - Multivendor Systems Engineering, HP Services, Hewlett-Packard Company, Ballybrit Business Park, Galway, Ireland tel: +353-91-754584 / mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
