Using FAI to build custom Debian install and iso?

[Bruce Edge]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Peterson [mailto:oroville_dan at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 12:56 PM
> To: Bruce Edge
> Cc: linux-fai at uni-koeln.de
> Subject: RE: Using FAI to build custom Debian install and iso?
> 
> 
> --- Bruce  Edge <bedge at troikanetworks.com> wrote:
> >
> > Depends on what packages you include.
> > By default it will grab all packages defined in all
> > of your package_config/* files, however you can
> > exclude classes from inclusion into the depot that
> > it builds.
> > My CD image is about 500 Meg. I'm including X, KDE,
> > compilers, debuggers, development stuff, many
> > editors, basically everything I could think of that
> > might be of some use. So that's 500 meg at full
> > bloat.
> 
> Hi Bruce, thanks again for the reply.
> 
> I'm currently going through 
> 
> http://members.iinet.net.au/~niall/fai/make-fai-bootcd.README
> 
> And there's a reference to /etc/gibraltar-cd/id.txt
> but I don't have that directory/file.  Maybe I'm
> getting ahead of myself and I'll create it further on
> down the road, but I've installed all the noted
> dependencies in preparation, but even in the Debian
> package search page, it didn't come up with anything.
> 
> Am I missing a vital package or just getting overly
> excited?
> 
> Thanks again,
> 

That's part of the mkinitrd-cd package.
Which, BTW, is very buggy.
I'm sorry I don't have a web site I can dump this stuff onto, but if you like I can mail you my patches for the various components.

-Bruce