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...
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. 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. - Matt ------------------------------------------------------- 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-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
