• omns
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Topic: Create a Custom Debian Live CD through the Web

Has anyone else had a look at this? I've been testing it tonight and am currently downloading a new build to see how it goes.

http://maketecheasier.com/create-custom … 2010/09/14

http://live-build.debian.net/cgi-bin/live-build

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Re: Create a Custom Debian Live CD through the Web

i tried it...twice!

never got any email with the link to download it...

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Re: Create a Custom Debian Live CD through the Web

I'm trying it now. I'm curious because I downloaded and installed Debian Live just the other day from here...
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current-live/
...and there is a bug with my hardware. If I did a restart, either from inside a session or from the login window, it would bypass Grub and just reboot directly into Debian. The only way to bring Grub up was to completely shutdown first. Someone else started a Debian forum thread on it here (workarounds are posted on pg. 3)...
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? … p;start=30

  • omns
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Re: Create a Custom Debian Live CD through the Web

hhh wrote:

...and there is a bug with my hardware. If I did a restart, either from inside a session or from the login window, it would bypass Grub and just reboot directly into Debian. The only way to bring Grub up was to completely shutdown first.

I noticed this to but quite like it. I rarely reboot anyway but it does speed things up a bit smile

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Re: Create a Custom Debian Live CD through the Web

Created a basic Xfce setup with terminator and gedit. Tested in VB.

Live session was very buggy and text installer failed with debootstrap errors... sigh

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Re: Create a Custom Debian Live CD through the Web

I successfully transferred the Xfce iso to USB and I was pretty impressed... only 282 MB, booted with no problem, and it's minimal. Strangely minimal. Like gnome-power-manager and xscreensaver are included but a text editor, browser and network manager (or wicd) are not included. It restarted correctly. If I wasn't so damned happy with #! and all the detail Phillip has put into it (especially the boot sequence and login window, so slick), I'd do another build with wicd and iceweasel and try to install it.

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Re: Create a Custom Debian Live CD through the Web

hmm, perhaps I'll give it another go. There must be an option I'm incorrectly setting somewhere. Then again I may just look at the package list from these builds and build my own from a net-install.

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