Le Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 12:55:23PM -0400, Kyle Moffett a écrit : > On Jul 19, 2011, at 19:22, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > > Since the Amazon EC2 can boot on > > custom kernels, it looks like that with this patch (or using Petter's > > workaround), it would be possible to prepare an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) > > of > > Debian-Installer itself, boot it from GRUB (through Amazon's kernels using > > PVGRUB and preseed it via initrd, in order to install Debian on an Amazon > > Elastic Block. Is that what you have tried ? > > That is exactly what I have done. > > The actual construction of the AMI containing the Debian-Installer is a bit of > a pain; I have a shell-script wrapper around the Amazon EC2 tools in order to > do marshall it into the official EC2 format, but the patches necessary to make > the SSH Console and Debian-Installer play nicely were surprisingly small. > > Basically, I created a new Debian-Installer image variant with a built-in > preseed file containing references to the standard Amazon EC2 infrastructure > for loading SSH keys and downloading additional preseed from EC2 "user-data".
This is really exciting. I was also wondering if the init and grub scripts that are usually installed on EC2 images could be properly packaged, so that the creation of an AMI would be a purely native Debian installation, with d-i preseeding. If you like the idea, would you be interested to co-maintain such a package, after inviting the other AMI producers (http://wiki.debian.org/Cloud/AmazonEC2Image) ? The source package could be team-maintained on Alioth within the collab-maint project, or incubated in the pkg-escience project for instance. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
