[Lilug] Stripping down an Ubuntu Image?

[Anthony Ehrhardt]

You try PCLINUXOS. It's the best stripped down version of linux that is
Ubuntu like. Plus, it can be installed on a thumb drive
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Justin Dearing <zippy1981 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Kenneth Downs <ken at secdat.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Before you do that figure out how to make an unattended install script
>> in ubuntu. Don't make this a manual chore to update.
>>
>>
>>
>> Lost me here.  Do you mean something other than the deb package?  Cuz what
>> I'm talking about here is running the deb package in a vm, stripping it
>> down, and then putting the VDI file up there on sourceforge.  So everything
>> will be installed an ready to go.
>>
>
> Let me clarify. Every decent OS, and Windows as well, has some sort of
> "automated install" option where you can make a simple text file to set
> install options automatically. I've never done this personally, but I'm
> pretty sure its part of the MCSE, RHCE and whatever Solaris calls its
> certificate.
>
> The idea being, once you figure out what to strip from the OS, you make an
> install script that allows you to replicate this install. Initially this
> seems like a moot point for a virtual image that can easily be copied.
> However, you get the following:
>
>
>    1. You can rerun the install inside of vmware, virtualpc, quemu etc, or
>    allow others to do so.
>    2. When a new ubuntu OS comes out its probably going to be pretty easy
>    to port the script over.
>    3. You can make the script install from a custom .deb (or whatever the
>    frak ubuntu uses) repo and put custom packages in.
>
>
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