On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 11:20:21AM -0400, Ed Street wrote: > Hello, > > I was wondering if anyone know of any methods where I could customize a > debian cd set with just the packages I want and scaled down so it would > fit on a mini and/or business card/credit card cd. To give you some > idea the size requirments > Full cd = 650 megs > Mini cd = 180 megs > biz card cd = 51 megs > Credit card cd = 52 megs > > Note these are the capacity of the blanks that I use and the size/shape > does vary on the latter 2.
There is <http://cvs.debian.org/boot-floppies/i386-specials/mini-iso.sh> which creates an ISO with base-only pkgs, from basedebs.tar. Alternatively I wrote this little script that lets you put whichever debs you want on there. Tried it with the b-f2.4 flavour. With just the base debs on there the ISO is 31MB. It doesn't provide any way to automatically install non-base debs that are on the ISO, but you can always apt-get install them once the system is up. Richard
#!/bin/sh # You should have a dir $DEBS containing all the .debs you want on # the ISO. You should have at least the base debs, as listed by # # debootstrap --arch i386 --print-debs woody # # You might populate that dir by grabbing basedebs.tar from the archive. # You should have a copy of the boot-floppies dir from an archive in # $DISKS, and set $FLAVOUR to the one you want on your ISO (e.g. bf2.4) set -e DEBS=./debs DISKS=/mirror/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current FLAVOUR=bf2.4 ISO=mini.iso WORKDIR=./work rm -f $ISO rm -rf $WORKDIR mkdir -p $WORKDIR ( cd $WORKDIR; ln -s . debian ) mkdir $WORKDIR/.disk echo "Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 prerelease Woody ($(date '+%Y%m%d'))" > $WORKDIR/.disk/info touch $WORKDIR/.disk/kernel_installable touch $WORKDIR/.disk/base_installable mkdir -p $WORKDIR/pool cp $DEBS/* $WORKDIR/pool mkdir $WORKDIR/boot mkdir -p $WORKDIR/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/$FLAVOUR cp $DISKS/images-2.88/$FLAVOUR/rescue.bin $WORKDIR/boot cp $DISKS/images-1.44/$FLAVOUR/rescue.bin $WORKDIR/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/$FLAVOUR mkdir -p $WORKDIR/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/$FLAVOUR cp $DISKS/$FLAVOUR/drivers.tgz $WORKDIR/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/$FLAVOUR mkdir -p $WORKDIR/dists/woody/main/binary-i386 cat > $WORKDIR/dists/woody/main/binary-i386/Release << EOF Archive: woody Component: main Origin: Debian Label: Debian Architecture: i386 EOF ( cd $WORKDIR; dpkg-scanpackages pool /dev/null > \ dists/woody/main/binary-i386/Packages cd dists/woody cat > Release << EOF Origin: Debian Label: Debian Suite: testing Codename: woody Architectures: i386 Components: main Description: Debian Woody - Not Released EOF echo DATE: `date -R` >> Release echo md5sum: >> Release for i in Release Packages do echo '' `md5sum main/binary-i386/$i | \ cut -d' ' -f1` `wc -c main/binary-i386/$i` >> Release done ) mkisofs -J -r -b boot/rescue.bin -o $ISO $WORKDIR