(redirected to unattended-devel) Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I know this has been mentioned before, but I don't recall any > conclusion being reached. What disadvantages are there to using a > cut-down standard distro for the initial image? It'd certainly be a > winner in situations like the one I'm facing at the moment... Most distributions I looked at are not designed for what we want to do. We need to keep some stuff on the boot disk (like network drivers) but other stuff on the network (like mass storage drivers). And we want to be able to shuffle things from one to the other; e.g., if we ever want to support DVD-ROM instead of a network share. Also, the distributions I checked are way behind on some software, like Linux 2.6, which has facilities we need. Mostly, though, I decided it would be fun to roll my own Linux distribution. :-) > Debian has a nice command called debootstrap, which basically has a > list of "base" packages which you can add to and remove from to > create your own image. So, with something as simple as "debootstrap > --include=libdbd-mysql-perl,dosemu --exclude=lilo sid /installimage" > and then copying the unattended-specific scripts and kernel image > files in, we'd have a nice debian system pretty much ready to go. Wouldn't that make the image itself huge? > Patrick/Shad: do you have any interest in this? If so, I'm happy to > supply some time and Debian-specific knowledge on what needs to be > done to make this happen. Well, our own boot disk has served us well so far. I actually managed to get a Linux kernel patch in for 2.6.5 which we now rely upon... On the other hand, we certainly do not have a good answer for people who want to add their own "packages" to the boot disk. In short, I have mixed feeling. So the question is, how much effort are you willing to put in without a guarantee that we will be interested? - Pat ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ unattended-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
