On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 01:53:14PM +0300, Denis J. Cirulis wrote: > I want to make (of course if it's possible) some kinda instalation profile. > I want to add only these deb packages to be installed which i'll select, but I > want to automate this task cause too much time is wasted to choose packages on > each machine. If there is some kickstart install would you be so kind and > point > me to the good documentation on how to implement this. > This might proof being useful for such a task:
-------------- snip ----------------- [pseelig]~ > apt-cache show bootcd Package: bootcd Priority: optional Section: utils Installed-Size: 53 Maintainer: Bernd Schumacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 1-5 Depends: cdrecord, mkisofs, cpio, makepatch, fdutils Suggests: ssh Architecture: i386 Size: 12094 MD5sum: 7336a8586b059d4eb87efafc33bad67c Filename: dists/woody/main/binary-i386/utils/bootcd_1-5.deb Description: run your system from cd without need for disks. Copy your running Debian System on CD with the command bootcdwrite. When you run your system from CD you do not need any disks. All changes will be done in ram. To reuse this changes at next boottime you can save them on FLOPPY with the command bootcdflopcp. If booting from your CD-drive is not supported, booting from floppy is possible. -------------- snip ----------------- It can be used for cloning a complete system installing from CD-ROM. Good luck, P. *8^) -- ------------ Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------- African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Johannes Gutenberg-University - Forum 6 - 55099 Mainz/Germany ------------------- http://ntama.uni-mainz.de --------------------