Re: Live CD with debootstrap and mkinitrd-cd

2002-07-03 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 02:36, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 03:13:14AM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote: > > > No - but you might want to have a look at how Knoppix does it. Knoppix > > actually uses a loop-compressed filesystem (see

Live CD with debootstrap and mkinitrd-cd

2002-07-02 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hi, I would like to create a live CD using mkinitrd-cd and debootstrap. I have a boot image and a complete Debian system that I created with debootstrap. The first impulse was to burn the whole directory structure containing the Debian system to CD and using the boot image created by mkbootimg.

basedebs.tgz in woody?

2001-11-29 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hi, I created a Woody CD from version 3.0.17-2001-11-18. When I tried to run the installer, it complained about a missing basedebs.tgz during the installation of the base system. And in fact, the file does seem to be missing from the Debian mirrors I tried this far. Can anyone tell me where to fi

Re: making a minimal CD

2001-11-09 Thread Juergen Fiedler
I finally got around to building a CD following your advice. After removing the dists/ directory, I was left with a 25M ISO image - and it works perfectly. I am quite pleased. Thank you very much! The next thing would be to customize the installer. It is in boot/rescue.bin, is it not? Are there a