I need help to create a Debian From Scratch. I have read about a live cd but i dont know where to find it. Please help me.

Hello,

Found this on google - http://linux.suramya.com/tutorials/Install_DFS/

Cheers,

Josh

A LiveCD wont help you build a Debian system from scratch it is a full Debian system on cd which you use to install Debian onto your system after seeing how it looks and works. You get it from here.

If you want to know how to make a LiveCD then you need to install the Live Build tools via synaptic (there are quite a few parts if you want to do it fully) and I would suggest you install the live-manual-pdf package as well and read that.

If you are talking about just using a CD and then installing Debian over the internet then download a netinst cd and build your system up from there. A netinst cd will give you a basic command line system and you will have to apt-get install everything you want until you get aptitude (which don't like) or synaptic installed.

Corp769 Thanks for your reply but i have already seen that web site. The problem with it is that the links are all unavailable. However i will keep it in mind to use it when i have the CD. Thanks anyway.

I've found a LiveCD in a uploaded in 2006. Is there any information updated about this project?

k3lt01: I've checked the link you post and I coldn't do anything after that. I want to make a Debian from scratch just like Linux from Scratch but with the ability to update easy, as easy as typing apt-get.

Oh, so that's what you want to do this whole time? You know you can customize LFS (hence why it's called LFS....) and you can incorporate RPM, DEB, etc......

I've tried to install apt to my LFS but there are a lot of dependencies in it and the essence (very little space) gets lost. I think that will be easier to install a DFS and update it with the repositories of Debian.

PD: To install apt in my LFS I use the BLFS book.

Debian From Scratch was not an official part of Debian, and the last news I have found from it was from 2006, the release of version 0.99. I would think it is abandoned.
I would recommend to make a really minimal install of Debian with debootstrap (for the smallest size have a look at the --variant=minbase option, was about 160MB with Lenny, don't know for newer versions) and build your system up from that.

Look for a guide/howto on installing DPKG (the actual package manager) on LFS.
Once you have DPKG installed, you can easily use it for everything else (including Apt and friends).

PS: I always use DPKG/APT on LFS.

Does anyone know what's up with those repositories all coming up "not found" when you use the Debian live site to build a CD? I discovered live.debian.net yesterday and have tried four or five times to use it, expecting it to send me an ISO, but every time, the log kept indicating that the repositories were not found. (I could post the log from the last time I tried to build a CD, if anyone wants to see it.) I don't know whether part of the Debian site is broken or whether I'm doing something wrong (I suspect not, if Adriankevin has the same problem at roughly the same time). I hope I can figure out what's wrong, as this Debian Live site is a great service.

Did you look at this location? http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/re...64/iso-hybrid/

That is for amd64 you may need i386 but they should have that too.

Thanks, but I've been there (Debian liveCD from a premade ISO) and that's not what I meant. I'm referring to this-- http://live.debian.net/ -- the service that makes a custom Debian system according to your specifications. Every time I try to use it, the log ends in these errors--

Newbies, have you downloaded the scripts? they are what is used on the website. Download them and read the book. Take your time and you will learn it.

What book is that? And I didn't see any instructions about scripts on http://live-build.debian.net/cgi-bin/live-build . But then I don't know much about scripting, so unless it spells out instructions with the something as obvious as "download these scripts," I wouldn't necessarily recognize the scripts.