Re: making a minimal CD

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

basedebs.tgz in woody?

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

Live CD with debootstrap and mkinitrd-cd

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.

Re: Live CD with debootstrap and mkinitrd-cd

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