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[Israel <israel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi again,
In trying to find out more about the Alternate installer I found a
package called
simple-cdd
https://wiki.debian.org/Simple-CDD/Howto
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/utopic/simple-cdd/utopic/view/head:/README

I don't fully grasp what this will do, but if I understand it, this may
be something we can use to automatically build the ISO
(much like we have been doing).

I thought you guys might be interested in checking this out.

I am still chasing down what we need for the alternate install.  This
will be quite a learning task.  There seems to be many parts that go
into this :)
Anyhow, I will look into all this stuff, and continue working on all the
rest of this stuff.

This has been a wonderful learning experience.  I may try to make a
chroot installer just to learn more about the chroot.
Solely so I can learn more about how this operating system works, and is
built.  But, then again, I may not :)  because we need to focus on the
current OS.


On 09/22/2014 02:31 PM, Jörn Schönyan wrote:
> Am Montag, 22. September 2014 10:04:17 CEST schrieb Nio Wiklund:
>> Hi Israel,
>> [replying inline]
>> Best regards
>> Nio
>>
>> Den 2014-09-21 23:32, Israel skrev:
>>> Hey everyone,
>>>
>>> I found a page that confirms my suspicions about using
>>> deboostrap/chroot
>>> to install on hardware.
>>> It basically uses the same principles as the script I am using to build
>>> the OS.  Though I was actually searching for something else :)
>>
>> This is very good news :-)
>>
>>>
> http://www.debian-administration.org/article/426/Installing_new_Debian_systems_with_debootstrap
>
>>>
>>> So... I think it would be very possible to use the current script (with
>>> modifications of course) to setup a NEW computer.
>>> I think we can write a very simple UI using dialog/zenity and simply
>>> 'copy' the current OS' packages over (minus a few ones we wont need,
>
> Israel, that work isn't really needed because you are reinventing the
> wheel. The alternate install isos do exactly the same you want to do.
> That should be a good point to start work from:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallCDCustomization
>
> Best regards!
>


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