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bypla ( 258480 ) writes:
Are there any alternative that'll spit out custom ISOs which
our non-technical staff can use to install a complete Linux system?
Take a look at
Knoppix Remastering [knoppix.net].
In a former life, I used to build custom embedded Linux distros
as the base platform for other company projects; Knoppix makes
it soeasy, if I hadn't already moved on from that job,
it would have sent me to the unemployment line.
Actually, I exagerate a tad there - Knoppix makes it almost trivial to
get a customized Debian-based system do
bymckwant ( 65143 ) writes:
Knoppix is good at this, but I didn't have the same experience as the parent. Either I did something to munge apt, or, well, SOMEthing, but I couldn't get one to boot under 100MB or so. I didn't have a lot of patience with what I removed or included, but once, due to dependencies, it started to remove some really base packages, and I got fed up.
In my experience, if you really need to get small, just use DamnSmallLinux. Tack on the apt and actual gnu utils dsl packages, and you're in business, and there's an "install to HD" option already built in, IIRC. YMMV, obviously.
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bypla ( 258480 ) writes:
I didn't have a lot of patience with what I removed or included, but once, due to
dependencies, it started to remove some really base packages, and I got fed up.
I find that, for the most part, apt will warn you if you try to remove something
important... But not always. When in doubt about one of the packages it shows,
try checking what it does with something like:
dpkg-query -W --showformat='${Installed-Size} ${Package} ${Description} ${Status}' packagenamegoeshere
You should also run deborphan every f
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