Display short usage information and exit.
- additional_arguments_for_fai::
-
-Any additional argument(s) to grml-live will be given to the FAI commandline
-(being basically "fai dirinstall ...). This might become a temporary solution
-(due to security reasons), if you need an option please let us know so we can
-implement it.
-
How to get your own live-cd - the easy, fast and simple way
-----------------------------------------------------------
-To get a small, Debian-stable and grml based live-cd:
+To get a small, Debian-stable and grml based live-cd using /dev/shm/
+as build and output directory:
+
+ # grml-live
- # TARGET="/grml/grml_uncompressed"
- # CDDIR="/grml/grml_cd"
- # grml-live -c GRML -t $TARGET
- # mksquashfs $TARGET/* $CDDIR/live/grml.squashfs -noappend
- # cd $CDDIR
- # mkisofs -V "my personal grml" -l -r -J -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 \
- -boot-info-table -c boot/isolinux/boot.cat \
- -b boot/isolinux/isolinux.bin -o /grml/grml.iso .
+[NOTE]
-(TODO: provide the content of /grml/chroot/grml_cd through the package
-grml-live, in the meanwhile get the content from a current grml-ISO)
+If you have about 700MB of free space inside /dev/shm (being a tmpfs, usually
+you have >=1GB of RAM) just run "mount -o remount,suid,dev,rw /dev/shm" and use
+/dev/shm as build and output directory - resulting in very fast build process.
+But please be aware of the fact that rebooting your system will result in an
+empty /dev/shm, so please another directory for $CHROOT_TARGET, $BUILD_TARGET
+and $ISO_TARGET if you plan to create more persistent output. :)
The class concept
-----------------
/etc/grml/fai/make-fai-nfsroot.conf
-TODO
+TODO: documentation
/etc/grml/fai/NFSROOT
-TODO
+TODO: documentation
/etc/grml/fai/apt/sources.list
* any Debian based system should be sufficient (if not please send a bug
report), for example a grml2hd harddisk installation ships all you need
-* enough free disk space, at least 700MB are required for a minimal grml-live
-run (~400MB for the chroot [$CHROOT_TARGET], ~150MB for the build target
-[$BUILD_TARGET] and ~150MB for the resulting ISO [$ISO_TARGET]).
+* enough free disk space; at least 800MB are required for a minimal grml-live
+run (\~400MB for the chroot [$CHROOT_TARGET], \~150MB for the build target
+[$BUILD_TARGET] and \~150MB for the resulting ISO [$ISO_TARGET] plus some
+temporary files)
* fast network access for retreiving the Debian packages used for creating the
chroot (check out "local mirror" and "NFSROOT" to workaround this problem as far
Known TODOs
-----------
-* extend the grml-live wrapper script so it runs all the necessary command in a
-single run (boot/isolinux, mksquashfs and mkisofs stuff is missing currently)
+* do not use /dev/shm/ als default target directory (which one do we want to use
+instead?)
+
+* add support for amd64 [gebi?] + ppc [formorer?] (and identify all packages
+that are arch specific so we have a clean package list in all classes)
+
+* support different grml-flavours through classes right out-of-the-box (being:
+grml, grml64, grml-small for at least x86, amd64 and ppc) [currently it defaults
+to Debian/stable I386]
-* really support signed apt repositories
+* support setting grml-live configuration on the command line to provide
+different flavours using the commandline only
+
+* really support signed apt repositories (currently it's deactivated via fai's
+dirinstall for some packages)
* explain (and provide configuration for) the use of NFSROOT
* support setting stuff like ISO name, version,... (especially for stuff inside
x86_files/boot/isolinux)
-* identify all packages that are arch specific
-
-* support different flavours and architectures of Debian (currently it defaults
-to Debian/stable x86_32)
+* support "final builds" (including stuff like md5sums)
-* use hooks of FAI in grml-live script?
+* use hooks of FAI as far as possible in all grml-live scripts
-* the GRML class(es) should send output as used inside FAI as well (so it's not
-as verbose unless you specify it)
+* the grml-live class(es) should send output as used inside FAI as well (so it's
+not as verbose unless you specify it, make it configurable)
* provide possibility for cleanup of all created build directories
+* support hooks to further allow customisation of the build process
+
+* support nocolor-option for /etc/grml/fai/grml/grml_cleanup_chroot
+
+* copy files from $FAI_CONFIGDIR/... instead of using 'cat > $FILE << EOF ...'
+inside all the /etc/grml/fai/config/scripts/GRML/-scripts
+
Bugs
----
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Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org>.
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