[Wylug-help] Creating disk images

[Simon Wood]

Hi Felix,
there was a presenation a while ago ay wylug about how GB Direct implemented this sort of system to re-installs their training suite. I don't know whether the notes are available.

I have just finished some work for a company who where using a custom Knoppix live CD to install/boot strap debian and their custom software onto harddrive. It was a bit messy but the basic idea was to get a basic system onto the disk and then use chroot & apt-get to install the rest of the system. 

The 'magic key' for installing packages that needed to be configured was 'get-selections' & 'get-selections' which enable pre-seeding of the configuration databases prior to installing the actual '.deb' package.

I believe the intention is to make some of the work they did available, email me off-list if you are interested and I'll put you in contact with the guy.

You may be interested in reading this page:
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch04s07.html

Have fun,
Simon.

On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 16:52:34 +0100
Felix Ulrich-Oltean <felix at chaptereight.com> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I need to look into setting up disk images for deploying several nodes 
> in a data centre.  The kind of thing where you shove the CD in the box, 
> turn it on, set a couple of things (like IP address), press enter, and 
> the thing installs everything it needs off the CD.
> 
> Can anyone point me to any useful online guides/articles/HOWTOs or any 
> relevant disk-imaging software?  I think we're looking at installing 
> Debian or Fedora.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Felix.
> 
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