Please notice that you should have a fast network connection as all the Debian
packages will be downloaded and installed via network. If you want to use a
local mirror (strongly recommended if you plan to use grml-live more than once)
-checkout mkdebmirror (see /usr/share/doc/grml-live/examples/mkdebmirror),
-debmirror(1), reprepro(1) (see /usr/share/doc/grml-live/examples/reprepro/ for a
+checkout debmirror(1), reprepro(1) (see /usr/share/doc/grml-live/examples/reprepro/ for a
sample configuration), apt-cacher(1) and approx(8). To avoid downloading the
base system again and again check out <<create-a-base-tgz,the base tar.gz
feature>>.
Specify the Debian suite you want to use for your live-system. If unset defaults
to "testing". Supported values are: stable, testing, unstable (or their
-corresponding release names like "jessie"). Please be aware that recent Debian
+corresponding release names like "stretch"). Please be aware that recent Debian
suites might require a recent base.tgz
(${GRML_FAI_CONFIG}/config/basefiles/$CLASSNAME.tar.gz) or a recent version of
debootstrap.
defining a Grml system. Important parts of the buildprocess are specified in
this class as well, so unless you have a really good reason you should always
use this class. Please be aware that using *just* the GRMLBASE class won't be
-enough, because the kernel packages (e.g. linux-image-i386-grml +
-linux-image-amd64-grml) are chosen in further GRML_* classes (to provide maximum
-flexibility with kernel selection). If you don't want to use the existing
-GRML_FULL or GRML_SMALL classes, define your own CLASS file choosing the kernel
-package you want to use (and don't forget to include your CLASS in the arguments
-of grml-live's -c... command line option).
+enough, because the kernel packages (e.g. linux-image-*) are chosen in further
+GRML_* classes (to provide maximum flexibility with kernel selection). If you
+don't want to use the existing GRML_FULL or GRML_SMALL classes, define your own
+CLASS file choosing the kernel package you want to use (and don't forget to
+include your CLASS in the arguments of grml-live's -c... command line option).
* GRML_FULL: full featured Grml, also known as the "normal", full grml as
introduced in December 2011 (~600MB ISO size).
Directory with lists of software packages to be installed or removed. The
different classes describe what should find its way to your ISO. When running
"grml-live -c GRMLBASE,GRML_SMALL,AMD64 ..." only the configuration of GRMLBASE,
-GRML_SMALL and and AMD64 will be taken. If you use 'grml-live -c
+GRML_SMALL and AMD64 will be taken. If you use 'grml-live -c
GRMLBASE,GRML_SMALL,AMD64,FOOBAR ...' then the files of GRMLBASE, GRML_SMALL,
AMD64 **plus** the files from FOOBAR will be taken. So just create a new class to
adjust the package selection according to your needs. Please notice that the
Of course using grml-live on a plain, original Debian installation is supported
as well. So there we go.
-What we have: plain, original Debian jessie (8.x).
+What we have: plain, original Debian stretch (9.x).
-What we want: build a Grml ISO based on Debian/jessie for the amd64 architecture
+What we want: build a Grml ISO based on Debian/stretch for the amd64 architecture
using grml-live.
Instructions
# CHROOT_INSTALL="/etc/grml/fai/chroot_install"
## adjust if necessary (defaults to ./grml/):
## OUTPUT="/srv/grml-live"
- FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP="jessie http://ftp.debian.org/debian/"
+ FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP="stretch http://ftp.debian.org/debian/"
# ARCH="amd64"
CLASSES="GRMLBASE,GRML_FULL,AMD64"
EOF
[...]
APT_PROXY="http://localhost:3142/"
[...]
- FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP="jessie http://localhost:3142/ftp.debian.org/debian jessie main contrib non-free"
+ FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP="stretch http://localhost:3142/ftp.debian.org/debian stretch main contrib non-free"
Make sure apt-cacher-ng is running ('/etc/init.d/apt-cacher-ng restart').
That's it. All downloaded files will be cached in /var/cache/apt-cacher-ng then.
First of all create the chroot using debootstrap (requires root):
BASECHROOT='/tmp/basefile' # path where the chroot gets generated
- SUITE='jessie' # using the current stable release should always work
+ SUITE='stretch' # using the current stable release should always work
debootstrap --exclude=info,tasksel,tasksel-data "$SUITE" "$BASECHROOT" http://ftp.debian.org/debian
tar -C "$BASECHROOT" --exclude='var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb' -zcf "${SUITE}".tar.gz ./
# export GRML_FAI_CONFIG=$(pwd)/etc/grml/fai
# export SCRIPTS_DIRECTORY=$(pwd)/scripts
+ # export TEMPLATE_DIRECTORY=$(pwd)/templates
# ./grml-live -s sid -a amd64 -c GRMLBASE,GRML_FULL,AMD64
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