Re: Adapting Debian live to support Amazon EC2 custom instance creation

2009-07-27 Thread Daniel Baumann
Michael Creel wrote: > I came to realize that using a live CD approach is probably not > the efficient way to go, given that the machines that run EC2 have > given specs. Live CDs are intended to run on heterogeneous hardware. i want live-helper to produce non-live images as well (only a few tweak

Re: Adapting Debian live to support Amazon EC2 custom instance creation

2009-07-27 Thread Michael Creel
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Christophe Pierret wrote: >> Are you aware of any work to adapt Debian live scripts to build AMI >> images for Amazon EC2 ? > > no, but patches welcome (if nobody steps up, i'll get around to it > myself at some point, but likely not in the n

Re: Adapting Debian live to support Amazon EC2 custom instance creation

2009-07-27 Thread Daniel Baumann
Christophe Pierret wrote: > Are you aware of any work to adapt Debian live scripts to build AMI > images for Amazon EC2 ? no, but patches welcome (if nobody steps up, i'll get around to it myself at some point, but likely not in the next two months). -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunders

Adapting Debian live to support Amazon EC2 custom instance creation

2009-07-27 Thread Christophe Pierret
Building an Amazon EC2 custom image on debian or ubuntu is much like building a live system: 1) Build OS on current filesystem (Use debootstrap, etc) 2) Handling /dev etc 3) Install software packages 4) Customize init scripts 5) Package the files More info here: http: