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The "DebianMed/LiveCD" page has been changed by SteffenMoeller: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/LiveCD?action=diff&rev1=10&rev2=11 The motivation behind this effort is to have the USB stick function like a regular hard drive and provide the basic functionality for some virtual or real machine to do exactly what it is supposed to do (and nothing much else). Again, a compressed file system would be lovely, but a plain journaled ext2 seems to allow a good start. - The installation is performed via deboostrap. cdebootstrap should also work, but it has not for me. Then to be added is a bootloader. I tried with grub2, but it reads from hd0 instead of hd1 when tested on a Windows machine, and I failed to change that. If hd0 is correct for a diskless client I cannot tell. The next attempt will be with extlinux, a ext2-compatible syslinux. The following describes my current state of my attempts: + The installation is performed via deboostrap. cdebootstrap should also work, but it has not for me. Then to be added is a bootloader. I tried with grub2, but it reads from hd0 instead of hd1 when tested on a Windows machine, and I failed to change that. If hd0 is correct for a diskless client I cannot tell. I was then successful with extlinux, an ext2-compatible syslinux. The following worked for me: {{{ sudo fdisk /dev/sdb1 # create a partition @@ -79, +79 @@ sudo mkdir /mnt/stick # prepare mount point mount -t ext2 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/stick - debootstrap --include=dropbear squeeze /mnt/stick http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian # please adjust to your mirror + mirror="http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian"; # please adjust + debootstrap --include=dropbear squeeze /mnt/stick $mirror }}} - - A disadvantage of this setup is the limited space to cache the packages - the binaries eat up the disk space that is needed to unpack them. And apt-get does not care about removing packages from /var/cache/apt to free disk space during installation. After the debootstrap, one should install in fractions rather than all in one - also depending on the size of your medium. A 4GB USB stick was found far less comfy than originally anticipated. Go for at least 8GB. + A disadvantage of this setup is the limited space to cache the packages - the binaries eat up the disk space that is needed to unpack them. And apt-get does not care about removing packages from /var/cache/apt to free disk space during installation. After the debootstrap, one should install in fractions rather than all in one - also depending on the size of your medium. A 4GB USB stick was found to be sufficient, but far less comfy than originally anticipated. Go for at least 8GB. {{{ chroot /mnt/stick @@ -102, +102 @@ passwd root }}} + And how to access the network should be specified - please adjust: + {{{ + cat > /etc/network/interfaces <<EONET + # The loopback network interface + auto lo + iface lo inet loopback + + # The primary network interface + auto eth0 + iface eth0 inet dhcp + EONET + }}} For getting the beast to boot, I attempted the following. The kernel should be installed, first, and the installation inspects the /proc directory, so this is prepared for it, too. @@ -120, +132 @@ EOFSTAB mount /proc apt-get install linux-image - # answering 'Y' to the questions asked, except the initrd is fine - press "don't cancel" + # answering 'Y' to the questions asked, except for the + # preparation for the initrd, which is fine - press "don't cancel" }}} - Now the system should be installed. It was not clear from the documentation ([[http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=548424|#548424]]) about how the configuration file should be named - so some good soul please improve the description given here. + Now the boot loader should be installed. It was not clear from the documentation ([[http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=548424|#548424]]) about how the configuration file should be named - so some good soul please improve the description given here. {{{ # still in the chroot @@ -141, +154 @@ # http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/EXTLINUX sudo apt-get install syslinux - extlinux -i /mnt/stick + extlinux -i /mnt/stick/boot sync # does not help too much with journaled file systems, though _______________________________________________ debian-med-commit mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-med-commit
