debootstrapping multidistributions

[Mathieu Alorent]

Hi,

Le samedi 13 novembre 2010 à 12:24 +0100, Michael Tautschnig a écrit :
> > I'm also thinking that possibly the basefiles.tgz could be built
> > later, after more packages are installed, which would make an even
> > faster FAI bootstrap install.  Maybe this will work only if the
> > hardware is identical?
> > 
> 
> I was hoping that someone else with more experience of using different
> basefiles
> would reply - seems like nobody has done so thus far. basefiles in a
> way are
> like disk images: It makes installation really fast, but you'll have
> to update
> them regularly and system-specific stuff cannot be incorporated. I'd
> therefore
> guess, yess, that a larger basefile makes bootstrapping faster. 

I've done something like that. My basefiles are regenerated every two
weeks. I've wrote a scratchy script that install CLASSES common packages
in the basefile.

This has really speeded up the install process! ~100sec per
installation.

Regards
Mât