On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 11:23:44AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm investigating creating customized installation DVD's &/or flash drives. > I have two use cases: > * one *REQUIRES* Squeeze. > * one could use Squeeze, but Jessie would have advantages. > * neither has useful internet connectivity > My changes would be: > * custom preseed.cfg [goal for one user would be no installer questions]
Having done this: it's quite hard to get absolutely no questions at all: some of the questions may be useful e.g. which of several network interfaces to use. > * custom set of packages in pool directory. If the packages are already in Debian, just use a postinst script to add them specifically. > > My questions: > 1. the references I've found so far are years old. > a. any recent pages? > b. does it make a difference [possible side effects of adopting > systemd]? > 2. Is there a practical limit on the ISO file size? It could be convenient > to > have all packages from the 13 DVD set of Jessie on the flash drive. > An easy one: get a 16GB flash drive. Use jigdo to build a BD (BluRay) disk iamge. Use dd to copy the BluRay image you have just built to the USB stick. There, you have everything on one stick. Note: I did this for Wheezy as this was released and it worked fine :) I've no obvious reason to believe it wouldn't work at least as well for Jessie. There is no obvious limit on iso size. All the best, AndyC > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject > of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/55ca2190.5030...@cloud85.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150811175948.ga1...@galactic.demon.co.uk
