Hi Tom, Kyle, Graziano and everybody, thanks for your replies. I have studied the material you provided and in parallell explored the use of debian-installer as an AMI itself. I reported my first steps in my blog, but strangely it does not show yet on Planet Debian.
http://charles.plessy.org/Debian/debiâneries/nuage/ It looks possible to run a pristine Debian istaller, without the need of special preparative ways. I could start the Stable version (20110106+squeeze3) and launch a SSH console using preseeding. In that case the login can not be done using SSH keys, but Kyle's patch would solve that problem in later releases. This raises the question of whether it would be possible to also run a fully pristine Debian sytem, without even the need of a cloud support package. Some core packages would need to be adjusted, for instance to instruct the SSH server to rotation of the SSH keys at the first boot, or to instruct the default grub to refresh /boot/grub/menu.lst (hardcoded in PvGrub) when installing a new kernel, … Having official (DD-signed, for instance ?) Debian-Installer images in the Amazon computer cloud looks definitely reachable, at least as elastic block store AMIs (that is, stored as a block device, not in a S3 bucket). In particular, despite the need to support at least two arches in at least five regions, the cost would be low (only 1 Go per machine image), definitely in a price range for which we would have good chances to be sponsored. And the stable Debian-Installer has much less security updates and point releases as the Stable release itself, which hopefully means a small work load. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110808151042.gd21...@merveille.plessy.net
