Installers for Homebrew Linux Distributions?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday July 22, 2003 @05:45AM from the building-on-what's-already-out-there dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "With the relatively easy instructions available from various sources (LSF being one), it's fairly easy now for just about any relatively advanced Linux user to create their own distro. I'm well into creating a distribution (for my friends and myself, nothing major), but I can't seem to find any real projects out there to actually go through an installation process. Anaconda is there, but the lack of documentation is serious. Are there any others out there? If not, what would be required to create one? An obvious start would be a stripped down, bootable Linux CD, and an application to handle partitioning, formatting, setting up the filesystem, and installing packages (of whatever sort), but what all has been done before?"

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base it on Debian by Olhado · 2003-07-22 08:04 · Score: 3, Interesting

I know everyone says debian has a terrible installation, but for anyone who has run linux for a little while, it really shouldn't be a problem. Probably not exactly what you were looking for but there are lots of commercial distros that have taken this route (xandros, libranet, etc).

Besides then you can use PGI and there is good documentation on starting a debian subproject here and as a debian package

Plus even if you don't want to use debian as a base all the installation code is open so you may just be able to learn something from it and they are still trying to rewrite the installation, so maybe you could help an existing project in the process! That's really the open source ideal isn't it?