Ever since I started working towards a Debian Jr. livecd back in November, I’ve played off and on with qemu, approx and debian-live.
Yesterday, I took another kick at the can. Being frustrated with make-live’s inability to combine two package lists, Daniel Baumann came to my rescue, promptly commiting and then releasing live-package 0.99.23-1
with three new package lists for Debian Jr.
- gnome-junior
- kde-junior
- xfce-junior
So now we have something to play with. Try it out. Install live-package 0.99.23-1 or later, configure /etc/make-live.conf to set LIVE_MIRROR to your favourite mirror (I use the apt caching proxy approx to avoid re-downloading the same packages from one run to the next) and pick an image and type to build, e.g.
$ sudo make-live -t usb -p gnome-junior
This makes a ./debian-live/binary.img that can be put on a 1G usb key flashdrive.
We have more work to do to polish this. Particularly, since the GNOME and KDE flavours are larger than a 700M CD, some fat could be trimmed. If you’ve tried it, I’d love to hear your ideas on debian-jr@lists.debian.org.
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I just want to say: Congrats 🙂