Well it's indeed not as easy as I thought as far as Debian ISOs are concerned.
I'll try to be more precise. I am a maintainer for Ubuntu on Linux on T2 Macs project: https://t2linux.org/. We work to modify ISOs of commonly used distros by adding a custom kernel with drivers for T2 Macs and provide to the users. There has been a demand for Debian for a long time and I wish to provide the ISOs for the same. I would prefer making the ISO as similar to the official Debian ISO and just replace the Debian kernel with the customised kernel. I've already set up an apt repo which hosts the kernels over here: https://github.com/AdityaGarg8/t2-ubuntu-repo I'll be thankful if I get the best possible option. On 11 May 2024, at 8:33 PM, Thomas Schmitt <scdbac...@gmx.net> wrote: Hi, Aditya Garg wrote to debian-devel: I wanted to create a custom ISO of Debian, with the following customisations: 1. I want to add a custom kernel that supports my Hardware. 2. I want to add my own Apt repo which hosts various software packages to support my hardware. I am not able to get any good documentation for the same. Please help. Marvin Renich wrote: The package live-build from the Debian Live project might help you do what you want. Indeed the live-build package seems to be in use outside Debian's own ISO production. Mailing list is debian-live@lists.debian.org There exists a manual https://live-team.pages.debian.net/live-manual/html/live-manual/index.en.html Installation ISOs are made by package debian-cd, of which i am not aware that it would have have users outside the official ISO production.i Mailing list is debian...@lists.debian.org Your impression about lack of documentation is not wrong as far as this project is concerned. :)) Nevertheless the production step of packing up the ISO from a prepared file tree is documented together with methods to use a Debian installation ISO as base for the preparation: https://wiki.debian.org/RepackBootableISO Packages may probably be added at the appropriate place in the directory tree under /pool. (Managing a Debian repo is not my turf. Sorry for being vague here.) Changing the content of a Debian ISO might need some follow-up work in administrative files of the ISO. When merging Debian ISOs, my script https://dev.lovelyhq.com/libburnia/libisoburn/raw/branch/master/test/merge_debian_isos manipulates: /README.txt /dists/*/Release and merges the files listed in /dists/*/Release. You would have to explore whether these files are affected by your changes. Have a nice day :) Thomas
