On Monday 03 January 2005 10:01, TIFR students wrote: > We would like to know if there is any way by which we can create an > debian distro ISO which contains packages of our choice.
This misses the whole CDD (custom debian distribution) angle which is still being worked out but aims to solve this problem: - Take a look at the cdd-dev package (not sure if it's able to build an install CD yet). - You could alsot look at the modified debian-cd scripts used by debian-edu/Skolelinux (Not sure in howfar these modifications have been merged back into the debian-cd package). They build a debian-cd set with the packages reordered so all debian-edu packages are on the first CD (which is otherwise a normal debian-installer CD). - Any detailed questions you have about any of the above are probably best asked on the debian-custom list. > 1.Downloading the whole ISO (650 MB) using jigdo or bittorrent. > But the problem is jigdo downloads only standard available ISOs on > mirrors.What we want is the customization in the number of and kind of > packages present in the ISO.We cananot make a CD set of our own choice in > this method.(Can we??) nope, to make you're own CD's look into debian-cd package (and possibly cdd-dev) > 2.Using net install. > Well we got the basic minimal ISO from woody(186 MB). > But is this supposed to be a live CD ?? or a distribution installer CD?? net-install images are minimal install CD, they are more or less debian-installer + base, with everything else downloaded from a mirror when needed. > Is the file structure of debian installer CD any different from any other > live CDs?? debian-installer CD's are not liveCD's at all > I guess we can get the additional packages we want from the > net,after installing this minimal ISO.But the problem is,how then,do we > convert the whole thing into an ISO that we want. the tools being created by the folks on debian-custom will solve this at some point (if they don't already) -- Cheers, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) 1. Encrypted mail preferred (GPG KeyID: 0x86624ABB) 2. Plain-text mail recommended since I move html and double format mails to a low priority folder (they're mainly spam)
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