Making LiveCDs

From: Matthew T. Atkinson (matthew_at_agrip.org.uk)
Date: 05/30/05

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Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 23:23:38 +0100

    Hello,

    I have read the recent guides on debian-adminstration.org on how to use
    bootcd and dfsbuild to make Live CDs. I thought that the best approach
    would be to make a chroot system and configure it to my liking, then
    burn that to CD. I did the following but it falls down in the end;
    would appreciate it if someone could tell me what I can do to fix is...

    $ mkdir live
    $ debootstrap sarge live/

    I copied my /etc/apt/sources.list to the chroot, then chrooted into it
    and mounted /proc.

    I installed grub and then exited the chroot and used:

    $ mkisofs -b lib/grub/i386-pc/stage2_eltorito -no-emul-boot
    -boot-load-size 1 -boot-info-table -pad -R -o live.iso live

    to make an ISO.

    Of course I'd forgotten to put a kernel on there ;-) so I went back into
    the chroot and tried to install kernel-image-2.4.27-speakup. It failed
    on trying to make the initrd, saying it couldn't determine the correct
    root device.

    How can I get around this? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

    bye just now, 

    -- 
Matthew T. Atkinson <matthew@agrip.org.uk>
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