How to create a sarge live CD?

[W. Borgert]

Hi,

for a small system without harddisk I like to run sarge completely
from CD. Are there any ready-to-use tools or do I have to rely on
(c)debootstrap+mkisofs+cdrecord? d-i can't help, right?

Thanks in advance!

Cheers, WB

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[Clive Menzies]

On (04/04/05 15:24), W. Borgert wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> for a small system without harddisk I like to run sarge completely
> from CD. Are there any ready-to-use tools or do I have to rely on
> (c)debootstrap+mkisofs+cdrecord? d-i can't help, right?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Cheers, WB

You have a few to choose from unless you really mean just sarge
customised to your own spec. Check out:
http://www.xfld.org/Xfld/en/xfld.html
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/
and of course knoppix itself

Regards

Clive

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[SigmaX]

Clive Menzies wrote:

>On (04/04/05 15:24), W. Borgert wrote:
>
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>for a small system without harddisk I like to run sarge completely
>>from CD. Are there any ready-to-use tools or do I have to rely on
>>(c)debootstrap+mkisofs+cdrecord? d-i can't help, right?
>>
>>Thanks in advance!
>>
>>Cheers, WB
>>
>>
>You have a few to choose from unless you really mean just sarge
>customised to your own spec. Check out:
>http://www.xfld.org/Xfld/en/xfld.html
>http://www.ubuntulinux.org/
> and of course knoppix itself
>
>Regards
>
>Clive
>
>
>

What's it take to create a live cd period? I'm wanting to use IPCop on
a disk-less box, and the ISO is only 40MB, but they don't have a live
CD. Hmmmm... I have a 64MB USB drive... heh, it's a thought.

[Stephen Patterson]

SigmaX <scottc...@cwazy.co.uk> writes:

> What's it take to create a live cd period? I'm wanting to use IPCop
> on a disk-less box, and the ISO is only 40MB, but they don't have a
> live CD. Hmmmm... I have a 64MB USB drive... heh, it's a thought.

*looks* make your own custom knoppix howto:
http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Knoppix_Remastering_Howto

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[Alvin Oga]

On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Clive Menzies wrote:

> On (04/04/05 15:24), W. Borgert wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > for a small system without harddisk I like to run sarge completely
> > from CD. Are there any ready-to-use tools or do I have to rely on
> > (c)debootstrap+mkisofs+cdrecord? d-i can't help, right?

you'd need to install /isolinux also to make it bootable

i'm not sure if debootstrap is the same as isolinux for making CDs
bootable

the hard way, but more fun ... and more customized ..
mkdir /opt/Top-of-CD
cp -dpar /isolinux /opt/Top-of-CD
cp -dpar /your-debian-box /opt/Top-of-CD <<-- the trick
mkisofs ... Top-of-CD.iso

> You have a few to choose from unless you really mean just sarge
> customised to your own spec. Check out:
> http://www.xfld.org/Xfld/en/xfld.html
> http://www.ubuntulinux.org/
> and of course knoppix itself

c ya
alvin

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 04:06:45PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote:
> On (04/04/05 15:24), W. Borgert wrote:
> > for a small system without harddisk I like to run sarge completely
> > from CD. Are there any ready-to-use tools or do I have to rely on
> > (c)debootstrap+mkisofs+cdrecord? d-i can't help, right?
>

> You have a few to choose from unless you really mean just sarge
> customised to your own spec. Check out:
> http://www.xfld.org/Xfld/en/xfld.html
> http://www.ubuntulinux.org/

It's worth noting that the latter's live CD (at least the current
version, which will be released properly on Friday) is based on d-i;
there's one extra package (casper) and a number of modifications to
existing d-i components, basically just to add symlinks for hook
scripts.

It'd be interesting to see how much of that could be made applicable to
Debian.

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[Mathias Tauber]

Hi,

> for a small system without harddisk I like to run sarge completely
> from CD. Are there any ready-to-use tools or do I have to rely on
> (c)debootstrap+mkisofs+cdrecord? d-i can't help, right?

Package: bootcd (2.47)
run your system from cd without need for disks

Build an image of your running Debian System with the command bootcdwrite. You can also build a bootcd ISO image via NFS on a remote System. When you run your
system from CD you do not need any disks. All changes will be done in ram. To reuse this changes at next boot time you can save them on FLOPPY with the command
bootcdflopcp. If booting from your CD-drive is not supported, booting from FLOPPY is possible. It is possible to install a new system from the running CD with
the command bootcd2disk. Bootcd2disk can also find a target disk, format it and make it bootable automatically. Bootcd also supports initrd root fs, devfs,
transparent-compression ISO 9660 fs and syslinux/isolinux.

Maybe that's a little help...

Mathias