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.
was the init system used by Grml until and including stable release 2014.11,
starting with beginning of 2016 Grml switched to systemd instead. If you want to
build a live system in the old style using file-rc instead of systemd then enable
-this class. Please notice that support for file-rc is no longer being actively
-maintained (the Grml team happily accepts patches though) and file-rc (upstream
-wise) might disappear too.
+this class. Please notice that the Grml team no longer provides support for it
+though.
* FRESHCLAM: execute freshclam (if it's present) to update clamav definitions
(increases resulting ISO size ~70MB). By default it's skipped to avoid bigger
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).
+introduced in December 2011 (~750 ISO size).
-* GRML_SMALL: minimum sized Grml version, known as grml-small (~300MB ISO
+* GRML_SMALL: minimum sized Grml version, known as grml-small (~360MB ISO
size).
* LATEX: LaTeX(-related) packages like auctex, texlive,...
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
grml-live on a plain Debian installation>> for details how to set up grml-live
on a plain, original Debian system.
-* enough free disk space; at least 1.5GB are required for a minimal grml-live
-run (\~850MB for the chroot [$CHROOT_OUTPUT], \~300MB for the build target
-[$BUILD_OUTPUT], \~30MB for the netboot files and \~300MB for the resulting ISO
+* enough free disk space; at least ~2GB are required for a minimal grml-live
+run (\~1GB for the chroot [$CHROOT_OUTPUT], \~400MB for the build target
+[$BUILD_OUTPUT], \~35MB for the netboot files and \~350MB for the resulting ISO
[$ISO_OUTPUT] plus some temporary files), if you plan to use GRML_FULL you
should have at least 4GB of total free disk space
Of course using grml-live on a plain, original Debian installation is supported
as well. So there we go.
-What we have: plain, original Debian jessie (8.x).
+What we have: plain, original Debian stretch (9.x).
-What we want: build a Grml ISO based on Debian/jessie for the amd64 architecture
+What we want: build a Grml ISO based on Debian/stretch for the amd64 architecture
using grml-live.
Instructions
# CHROOT_INSTALL="/etc/grml/fai/chroot_install"
## adjust if necessary (defaults to ./grml/):
## OUTPUT="/srv/grml-live"
- FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP="jessie http://ftp.debian.org/debian/"
+ FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP="stretch http://ftp.debian.org/debian/"
# ARCH="amd64"
CLASSES="GRMLBASE,GRML_FULL,AMD64"
EOF
[...]
APT_PROXY="http://localhost:3142/"
[...]
- FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP="jessie http://localhost:3142/ftp.debian.org/debian jessie main contrib non-free"
+ FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP="stretch http://localhost:3142/ftp.debian.org/debian stretch main contrib non-free"
Make sure apt-cacher-ng is running ('/etc/init.d/apt-cacher-ng restart').
That's it. All downloaded files will be cached in /var/cache/apt-cacher-ng then.
First of all create the chroot using debootstrap (requires root):
BASECHROOT='/tmp/basefile' # path where the chroot gets generated
- SUITE='jessie' # using the current stable release should always work
+ SUITE='stretch' # using the current stable release should always work
debootstrap --exclude=info,tasksel,tasksel-data "$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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