Frank Hall wrote: > I'm looking to create a large ISO installation image. > > I will write the image to a large USB stick to use as installation > media. Therefore, I may as well include all packages. > > How do I assemble such an image?
if you already have dvd images? or no? shouldn't really matter as you can download them? or? > I've read the manpage of build-simple-cdd and am none the wiser; nor > have I managed to find examples online. I've also looked for .jigdo > files (to use as input to jigdo-lite(1)). i used to copy all of the dvd's to my external USB drive and it worked fine. i just did a straight cp -a into a subdirectory like disk1, disk2, etc. then i added entries to the sources.list file and it worked just fine. complained a bit about not having an exact signature or something but there are options for telling apt to ignore such aspects. try this simple approach you won't really notice a difference between having 1 or a half dozen entries in the sources.list file. and for all the time you'll sink in trying to figure out something more fancier it may just work. let us know if it still works, or any problems you encounter. if anything do it for the first image and see if that works before downloading the rest. i did this way back in the days of lenny, but i'd be surprised if it didn't work. songbird
