Hello, I'm working on a project for my graduation - creating a customized, minimal debian distribution for installation on HP T5530 thin-clients that have only 512MB Flash disk and 228MB RAM. I installed debian on one thin-client using the NetInstallation disk of Lenny. I have been able to limit the size of the installed system to 450MB with Xorg, firefox(not iceweasel), ssh, feh and rdesktop with OpenBox combined with LXpanel and iDesk forming the GUI. This configuration has more than met the basic requirements of the project which required only firefox and basic GUI. The entire exercise would be complete after tweaking the installation to restrict unnecessary tinkering by users.
Now comes the main question: ----------- Is there a way I can now take this installed system and create an installation disk with a text-based installer? In other words, I'd like to keep all the software I installed, removed and configured during the entire process, and must also include the customized user permissions. ----------- I say text-based installer since I would be creating a customized preseed that would install the distro with little user intervention. This is required since this would have to be installed on a number of such thin-clients. Resources on the internet talk about creating a live-cd from installed systems, and I think I haven't managed to do a good job with google search either, and hence this post. I'd really appreciate it if you could direct me to appropriate resources on the web or any documentation or even your own experience. I've really been learning a lot and I'm more than ready for further learning. Thanks for reading, and have a good day/night! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
