Specify the Debian suite you want to use for your live-system. Defaults to
"squeeze" (being current Debian/stable). Supported values are: etch, lenny,
-squeeze, sid. Debian "squeeze" requires a recent base.tgz
-(${GRML_FAI_CONFIG}/config/basefiles/$CLASSNAME.tar.gz) or a recent version of
-debootstrap.
+squeeze, wheezy, sid. 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.
-t **TEMPLATE_DIRECTORY**::
[NOTE]
-If you have enough RAM, just run "mount -t tmpfs none /mnt/ramdisk" to get a
-tmpfs ("RAMDISK"), and use /mnt/ramdisk as build and output directory - this
+If you have enough RAM, just run "mount -t tmpfs none /media/ramdisk" to get a
+tmpfs ("RAMDISK"), and use /media/ramdisk as build and output directory - this
results in a very fast build process. Note that these files will be gone when
rebooting.
* DEBORPHAN: get rid of all packages listed in output of deborphan
+* FRESHCLAM: execute freshclam (if it's present) to update clamav definitions
+(increases resulting ISO size ~70MB). By default it's skipped to avoid bigger
+ISO size.
+
* GRMLBASE: the main class responsible for getting a minimal subset of what's
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
grml-live out-of-the-box so you shouldn't have to configure anything in this
file.
- ${GRML_FAI_CONFIG}/make-fai-nfsroot.conf
-
-This file is used by make-fai-nfsroot(8) only. Usually you don't have to change
-anything inside this file. If you want to modify NFSROOT though you can adjust
-it there.
-
- ${GRML_FAI_CONFIG}/NFSROOT
-
-This file specifies the package list for creating the NFSROOT.
-
${GRML_FAI_CONFIG}/config/
The main directory for configuration of FAI/grml-live. More details below.
total free disk space
* fast network access for retrieving the Debian packages used for creating the
-chroot (check out "local mirror" and "NFSROOT" to workaround this problem as far
-as possible)
+chroot (check out "local mirror" to workaround this problem as far as possible)
For further information see next section.
# mv AMD64.tar.gz /etc/grml/fai/config/basefiles/
# install relevant tools
- # please check out http://grml.org/grml-live/#current_state when encountering problems!
apt-get install -t squeeze-backports squashfs-tools
- apt-get -o APT::Install-Recommends=false install grml-live
+ apt-get --no-install-recommends install grml-live
# adjust grml-live configuration for our needs:
cat > /etc/grml/grml-live.local << EOF
Yes. Set up an according sources.list configuration as class file in
${GRML_FAI_CONFIG}/config/files/etc/apt/sources.list.d/ and adjust the variable
-FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP (if not already using NFSROOT's base.tgz) inside
+FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP (if not already using a base.tgz) inside
/etc/grml/grml-live.conf[.local]. If you're setting up your own class file don't
forget to include the class name in the class list (grml-live -c ...).
dpkg -i --force-confnew --force-confmiss /path/to/grml-live_..._all.deb
[[create-a-base-tgz]]
-How do I create a base.tgz for use as NFSROOT?
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-First of all build the chroot system:
-
- mkdir /tmp/nfsroot && cd /tmp/nfsroot
- debootstrap squeeze /tmp/nfsroot/ http://cdn.debian.net/debian
- tar zcf base.tgz ./
+How do I create a base.tgz?
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-Then check out where your NFSROOT is located:
+First of all create the chroot using debootstrap:
- # grep '^NFSROOT' /etc/grml/fai/make-fai-nfsroot.conf
- NFSROOT=/grml/fai/nfsroot
+ BASECHROOT='/tmp/basefile'
+ debootstrap wheezy "$BASECHROOT" http://http.debian.net/debian
+ tar -C "$BASECHROOT" --exclude='var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb' -zcf base.tar.gz ./
-So as /grml/fai/nfsroot is your NFSROOT place the file under
-/grml/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir/var/tmp/:
-
- mv base.tgz /grml/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir/var/tmp/base.tgz
-
-or even better use /etc/grml/fai/config/basefiles/$CLASSNAME.tar.gz instead.
-Use I386 as $CLASSNAME for i386 builds and AMD64 for amd64 builds.
-
-Now running "grml-live ..." will use this file as main system instead of
-executing debootstrap. Check out the output for the following lines if using
-NFSROOT:
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+By default debootstrap builds a chroot matching the architecture of the running
+host system. If you're using an amd64 system and want to build an i386 base.tgz
+then invoke debootstrap using the '--arch i386' option. Disclaimer: building an
+AMD64 base.tgz won't work if you are using a 32bit kernel system of course.
- [...]
- Calling task_extrbase
- Unpacking Debian base archive
- Extracting /grml/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir/var/tmp/base.tgz
- Calling task_mirror
- [...]
+Then move the base.tar.gz to /etc/grml/fai/config/basefiles/$CLASSNAME.tar.gz.
+Use e.g. I386 as $CLASSNAME for i386 chroots and AMD64 for amd64 chroots.
-or if using /etc/grml/fai/config/basefiles/$CLASSNAME.tar.gz for:
+Now executing grml-live should use this file as base system instead of executing
+debootstrap. Check out the output for something like:
[...]
- ftar: extracting /etc/grml/fai/config/basefiles///AMD64.tar.gz to
- /grml-live/grml-live_20071029.22138/grml_chroot//
+ ftar: extracting //etc/grml/fai/config/basefiles///AMD64.tar.gz to /srv/grml64_testing/grml_chroot//
[...]
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