Kind of a Proxmox VE enquiry...

[Lantizia]

Hey folks,

Love Proxmox VE as I think all of us do or we wouldn't be here...

I'm wondering if perhaps the team could reveal to us the method they used to mix the CD ISO? From what I understand it's a Debian Lenny netinst, with LVM mode set, and your packages installed.

Can you tell us how you made the CD from the Debian Lenny CD into that?

The reason I ask is I really love the way your ISO is layed out (makes editing the ISO really easy) and I'd like to make custom Debian install CD's for all kinds of other purposes (like one that installs Debian Lenny + SysCP, or Debian Lenny + FreePBX)...

If you've got some little script or "how to" you follow each time you have to generate a new ISO I'd love to see it!

Thanks!

Steven

 

[dietmar]

We use 'mkzftree' and 'mkisofs' tools. You can find enough documentation on the web if you want to assemble your own iso.

 

[Lantizia]

Do you have any more information on that?

Like a script or guide you follow when using it (or just an idea on the steps perhaps with example commands). The only reason I ask if I've been googling for a couple of days now (and asking in the Debian channel) and can't find any good guides on it's usage. Only other methods for making CD's, which I don't want to use - I like how the filesystem is actually on the CD itself (not in an image file) as yours is.

 

[dietmar]

Ah, you want to know howto build a debian based distribution? Please take a look at 'debootstrap' command.

# man debootstrap

it is just a shell script.