Ticket #54 (closed enhancement: fixed)

Opened 16 years ago

Last modified 15 years ago

Create a debathena LiveCD / installation CD

Reported by: tabbott Owned by: xavid
Priority: normal Milestone:
Component: Keywords:
Cc: xavid Fixed in version:
Upstream bug:

Description

I think the best approach is to make a script that creates a Debathena installer LiveCD, so that we can completely automate upgrading to new distributions. We may need to be careful with memory usage.

Change History

comment:1 Changed 16 years ago by tabbott

These may be good things to look at for making this easy.
 https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallCDCustomization
 http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apbs05.html.en#preseed-hooks
simple-cdd (installed on debuild)

comment:2 Changed 16 years ago by xavid

  • Owner set to xavid
  • Status changed from new to assigned
  • Cc xavid added

I've been thinking about creating a Debathena Live CD based on Hardy (I tried once before with the old debian-athena stuff, but never got it working quite right). If no one else is working on this, I'll give it a try.

comment:3 Changed 15 years ago by xavid

Nelhage and I got an ISO that basically works done today at the hackathon. It can be downloaded from my public (/mit/xavid/Public/debathena.iso). It's generated by a script run on a normal Hardy Heron iso. The source for the script is in a git in my public: /mit/xavid/Public/git/debathify.git/. Testing/feedback/suggestions welcome.

comment:4 Changed 15 years ago by xavid

Source is now canonically in /mit/debathena/git/debathena-live.git/.

comment:5 Changed 15 years ago by tabbott

  • Status changed from assigned to closed
  • Resolution set to fixed

I think this is now essentially working. But we should update the debathena website to advertise the live CD/installer setup.

comment:6 Changed 15 years ago by adehnert

Any chance of getting that link added?

comment:7 Changed 15 years ago by xavid

The current CD iso (which is based on Hardy) is in my Public:  http://web.mit.edu/xavid/Public/debathena-8.04.1-live-beta3.iso. I don't have bits on the website.

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