Re: custom boot CD

2007-09-01 Thread Ondrej Certik
> Thanks for sharing. Do you know the debian-live project? No, I didn't, thanks for the info. I put that into the links. > Your CD scripts were interesting since they're very compact (~130 > lines) whereas d-l is much larger (~11k lines). It's actually only 86 lines, the relevant files are thes

Re: custom boot CD

2007-08-31 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 01:09:21AM +0200, Ondrej Certik wrote: > Hi, > > I often have problems installing Debian using the official installer, > What remains is my own custom boot CD, with the newest kernel. Since I > have already used my code several times by now, I decided to

Re: custom boot CD

2007-08-30 Thread Ondrej Certik
> So I try to install by hand using debootstrap, usually from Knoppix, > if possible. Unforunately, it usually doesn't load on new computers > either. BTW, today, the debootstrap won't even build the base system without problems (it even tries to install x11-common !). I use pbuilder, that fortuna

custom boot CD

2007-08-30 Thread Ondrej Certik
o and once today and I was always using the newest available installer. So I try to install by hand using debootstrap, usually from Knoppix, if possible. Unforunately, it usually doesn't load on new computers either. What remains is my own custom boot CD, with the newest kernel. Since I have