Package Tools, Install Tools, Snapshot Tools, Build Tools, Core Components, Remaster Tools

grml2usb

Posted Wed, 2008-11-19 19:34 by Anonymous

"grml officially supports booting from usb-stick with all grml flavours. [...]

Prepare system

* Get the grml iso
* Mount the iso loopback (e.g. mount -o loop grml_small_0.4.iso /mnt/grml-iso)
* Make FAT16 filesystem on the usbstick (e.g. mkfs.vfat -F 16 -v /dev/sda1)
* Mount the usbstick (e.g. mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/external1)
* Copy everything to the usbstick (e.g. cp -r /mnt/grml-iso/* /mnt/external1).
* Move all files from /mnt/external1/boot/isolinux/ (mv /mnt/external1/boot/isolinux/* /mnt/external1) and the files linux26 and the minirt.gz (since grml1.1: initrd.gz!) from the directory named like the grml-flavour (/boot/grml, /boot/grmlmedium, /boot/grml64,...) to root of usb-stick
* Umount the usbstick and the grml-iso
* Run syslinux on the usbstick (e.g. syslinux /dev/sda1)
* Check if the usbstick has an valid mbr, else dd if=mbr.bin of=/dev/sda (mbr.bin is in the syslinux package, usually installed in /usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin)
* may need to set the bootable flag using parted (or fdisk)"

http://hg.grml.org/grml2usb/raw-file/tip/grml2usb

http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=usb

Image Creator

Posted Thu, 2008-10-16 01:59 by Anonymous

"This tool is a YaST user interface for the KIWI imaging tool. It is aimed to provide easy way to configure your image configurations, suitable for kiwi. Once you create such configuration with YaST, you can save it and later build an image from it manually with kiwi, or you can run kiwi directly from the YaST module. It is possible to create new configuration from scratch, as well as importing existing one and modify its settings.

YaST Image Creator is part of yast2-product-creator package."

http://en.opensuse.org/YaST/Modules/Image_Creator

List of LiveDistro Remastering Software

Posted Wed, 2008-10-15 20:32 by Anonymous

"The following is a list of software to remaster operating systems:"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_remastering_software

rootstrap

Posted Sat, 2008-08-23 01:22 by Anonymous

"A tool for building complete Linux filesystem images

Rootstrap was originally written to provide a facility for building filesystems for use with User-mode Linux, but can be useful in other applications as well.

It uses a modular set of shell scripts to create the filesystem image, install a base system, and customize it for a particular application. Currently, it only builds Debian systems, but the architecture is such that other base systems could be used instead.

Use of rootstrap does not require root access, or special privileges of any kind. This is because it builds the filesystem inside a User-mode Linux system running under an unprivileged uid.

Filesystem creation with rootstrap is quick and painless. With a local mirror and a single command, a fresh Debian filesystem can be created in about 3 minutes on relatively modest hardware."

http://packages.debian.org/source/rootstrap

live-xmaker

Posted Sat, 2008-08-23 01:22 by Anonymous

"a little python script, live-xmaker.

Live-xmaker is a command line front-end to live-helper, inspired by morphix-mmaker[4][5] (written by Alex de Landgraaf). This allows all the configurations for a liveCD build to be specified in one XML file. [...]

I plan to update live-xmaker with all the possible options available via live-helper [...]

This script is licensed under the GNU GPL v2 or later."

Feedback is very welcome. I have also cc'ed the morphix-developers mailing list as it may pique the interest of follow morphers."

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-live-devel/200...

http://autotesting.livecd.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=live-xmaker...

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive

Crocodile

Posted Sat, 2008-08-23 01:22 by Anonymous

"The Crocodile project aims to cross-compile Debian from scratch by using Scratchbox. Currently the essential packages of the Sarge distribution can be built for the ARM (little-endian) architecture. Support for the MIPS (big-endian) and CRIS architectures is under development."

http://www.scratchbox.org/wiki/Crocodile

ReaR

Posted Sat, 2008-08-09 18:19 by Anonymous

"Relax and Recover (abbreviated ReaR) is a highly modular disaster recovery framework for GNU/Linux based systems, but can be easily extended to other UNIX alike systems. The disaster recovery information (and maybe the backups) can be stored on the network, USB devices and DVD/CD-R. The result is bootable rescue system that can be booted via PXE, DVD/CD and USB media.

The rear project is a spin-off of two existing projects:

* OpenVPN Gateway Builder (OGB) of Schlomo Schapiro, and
* Make CD-ROM Recovery (mkCDrec) of Gratien D'haese

We had the idea to take the best of both worlds. The modular concept of OGB and the disaster recovery part of mkCDrec. We are proud that we were able to release rear v1.0 with a few weeks of coding. That was only possible due to strict modular design and seperating duties within the design and coding.

We can only hope that we can/may inspire other developers to jump on our disaster recovery project and help us to improve and deliver new plug-ins.

Now, one and a half years later, we are proud to release rear 1.6 amongst the knowledge that Relax & Recover is used by a growing community of end-users and contributors.

Purpose and Key Features

* Focus on Disaster Recovery, not backup
* Modular concept easy to extend with new features
* For Linux and other Unix-like operations systems
* No external dependancies - use only standard software supplied with the distribution
* Linux: kernel > 2.6 supported (no kernel 2.2/2.4 support !)
* User friendly - minimal output, use log file for error messages and details
* Designed with enterprise environments and security issues in mind

The aim is to make rear as least demanding as possible, it will require only the applications neccessary to fulfill the job rear is configured for. All other applications will be copied to the rescue system if they are present.

License

rear is licensed under the GNU General Public License"

http://rear.sourceforge.net/

Moblin Image Creator

Posted Thu, 2008-08-07 23:57 by Anonymous

"Moblin Image Creator is a tool aimed at making life easier for the mobile and embedded developer. The tool is designed to be extremely flexible with platform-specific knowledge isolated to a platform definition. Initial focus is on a new class of devices known as Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs), but the design of Moblin Image Creator is not MID-specific and talk is already underway to add new platform definitions to build consumer electronics stacks, such as TV set-top boxes.

Note: Previously, "Moblin Image Creator" was called "Project Builder", so you may see references to the old name in the documentation and source code.

There are three fundamental features that Moblin Image Creator provides:

* creating a platform-specific build-environment, or "project"
* creating a platform-specific target file-system
* providing user selectable "feature sets" (or fsets) to install bundles of packages that provide some high-level functionality

For more details on projects, targets, fsets, and images, click here."

http://moblin.org/projects/projects_image-creator.php

http://www.moblin.org/repos/tools/moblin-image-creator.git

Backtrack Automated Download and Installation on USB stick using Windows

Posted Wed, 2008-08-06 04:00 by Anonymous

"Newbee USB INSTALLER UNDER WINDOWS

I have coded this over the past few days. A GUI for downloading and installing BT2 to a usb stick, flash card or usb hd in a way that the king of newbeez can do it so if your interested in this freeware, here is the link, feel free to ask questions, feedback welcome.....:

http://rapidshare.com/files/29047490/BT2USB4WINBETARELIZ2.rar.... Welcome to BackTrack 2 USB 4 WIN

1)What the hell is it ?"

http://backtrack.offensive-security.com/index.php?title=Howto:...

http://sourceforge.net/projects/bt2usb4win/

http://rapidshare.com/files/29047490/BT2USB4WINBETARELIZ2.rar....

SystemImager

Posted Sat, 2008-06-14 03:34 by Anonymous

"SystemImager is software which automates Linux installs, software distribution, and production deployment.

SystemImager makes it easy to do automated installs (clones), software distribution, content or data distribution, configuration changes, and operating system updates to your network of Linux machines. You can even update from one Linux release version to another!

It can also be used to ensure safe production deployments. By saving your current production image before updating to your new production image, you have a highly reliable contingency mechanism. If the new production enviroment is found to be flawed, simply roll-back to the last production image with a simple update command!

Some typical environments include: Internet server farms, database server farms, high performance clusters, computer labs, and corporate desktop environments."

http://systemimager.org/

liveusb-creator

Posted Wed, 2008-05-21 12:18 by Anonymous

"The liveusb-creator is a cross-platform tool for easily installing live operating systems on to USB flash drives.

Features

* Supports downloading various Fedora releases, including Fedora 9!
* Persistent overlay creation (only works with Fedora 9 right now). This lets you to allocate extra space on your USB stick, allowing you to save files and make modifications to your live operating system that will persist after you reboot. This essentially lets you carry your own personalized Fedora with you at all times
* SHA1 checksum verification of known releases, to ensure that you've downloaded the correct bits"

https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator

OpenEmbedded

Posted Sun, 2008-05-18 09:09 by Anonymous

"OpenEmbedded is a full-featured development environment allowing users to target a wide variety of devices. Supporting multiple build, release paths and configurations, OpenEmbedded extends the capabilities of your build and release engineers. OpenEmbedded uses compilation and configuration caching at most levels to increase developer productivity. [...]

OpenEmbedded is a tool which allows developers to create a fully usable Linux base for various embedded systems. It has been designed to be able to handle different hardware architectures, support multiple releases for those architectures, and utilize tools for speeding up the process of recreating the base after changes have been made. Currently it can run on any Linux distribution, and plans are in place to allow it to work under Windows.

OpenEmbedded is the successor of the great OpenZaurus project. Basically OpenEmbedded is a build system that can generate (cross-compile) Software packages for embedded targets. This may include Bootloader, Linux and Applications. It started as a dream and BrainStorming, on how this could be done, and it's already used in real life."

http://oe.linuxtogo.org/

http://oe.linuxtogo.org/project-overview

Gujin

Posted Mon, 2008-04-21 09:06 by Anonymous

"Gujin is a PC boot loader which can analyze your partitions and filesystems.

It finds the Linux kernel images available, as well as other bootable partitions (for *BSD, MS-DOS, Windows, etc.), files (*.kgz) and bootable disk images (*.bdi), and displays a graphical menu for selecting which system to boot.

Gujin boots Linux kernel using the documented interface, like LILO and GRUB, so it doesn't need any other pre-installed bootloader. It can also directly load gzip'ed ELF32 or ELF64 files, with a simple interface to collect real-mode BIOS data. There is no need to execute anything after making a new kernel: just copy the kernel image file into the "/boot" directory, with a standard name.

Gujin is written almost entirely in C with GCC, and it fully executes in real mode to be as compatible as possible."

http://gujin.sourceforge.net/

Ape Base Compile System

Posted Thu, 2008-04-17 04:34 by Anonymous

"The Ape Base Compile System is a set of bash scripts to leverage both ESP EPM (http://www.epmhome.org/) and MREPO (http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/mrepo/) in maintaining Red Hat based systems that require custom and secluded binaries. If you need "Ape" to be an acronym, then go for "Application Packaging Environment" as christened by Mark Stokan. The original notion for the name was that this system was "aping" the performance of several tasks."

http://apebase.sourceforge.net/

Smart Package Manager

Posted Thu, 2008-04-17 04:29 by Anonymous

"The Smart Package Manager project has the ambitious objective of creating smart and portable algorithms for solving adequately the problem of managing software upgrading and installation. This tool works in all major distributions, and will bring notable advantages over native tools currently in use (APT, APT-RPM, YUM, URPMI, etc).

Notice that this project is not a magical bridge between every distribution in the planet. Instead, this is a software offering better package management for these distributions, even when working with their own packages. Using multiple package managers at the same time (like rpm and dpkg) is possible, even though not the software goal at this moment."

http://labix.org/smart

EPM ESP Package Manager

Posted Thu, 2008-04-17 04:22 by Anonymous

"EPM is an open source UNIX software and file packaging program that generates distribution archives from a list of files. EPM provides a complete, cross-platform software distribution solution for your applications.

ESP generates both native and "portable" script-based distribution packages complete with installation and removal scripts and standard install/uninstall GUIs. The installers can be customized with product logos, "readme" files, and click-wrap licenses as desired.

* Creates software packages that can be distributed on disc or over the Internet!

* Supports AIX, Debian GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, HP-UX, IRIX, Mac OS X, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Red Hat Linux, Slackware Linux, Solaris, and Tru64 UNIX.

* Provided as free software under the GNU General Public license."

http://www.epmhome.org/

zdisk

Posted Sun, 2008-04-06 15:25 by Anonymous

"The purpose of 'zdisk' is to put a kernel of your choice and a rescue system on one 1.44mb"

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/recovery/zdisk-2.15.co...

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/recovery/zdisk-2.15.ta...

CatRescue

Posted Sun, 2008-04-06 15:03 by Anonymous

"Generates a compact boot floppy with kernel, libraries an additional utilities you choose. A useful pre-generated floppy image with editor, filesystem utilites and so on is included. This is an ELF upgrade version. Users and ftp sites should keep CatRescue 1.00 for a.out systems.

Keywords: rescue, recovery, floppy, ELF"

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/recovery/CatRescue101E...

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/recovery/CatRescue101E...

HackyRemaster

Posted Fri, 2008-04-04 19:34 by Anonymous

"HackyRemaster is a script for remastering Puppy. It is not automated like AlienX's script, and it is not like Puppy Unleashed.

What this does is sets up an entire filesystem that you can go into and edit to your heart's content. It puts that filesystem inside a partition image (like pup001) so it can be saved on the harddrive even if you don't have linux partitions.

The script automates setting it up and putting it back togeather. It includes HackyPupBeGone, which makes removing the built in stuff easier. It also has a built in burning script that is mostly like Barry's BurnISO2CD script, but it also supports blanking CDRWs."

http://puppylinux.org/wikka/HackyRemaster

boot linux from windows ntfs partition (frugal install)

Posted Thu, 2008-04-03 13:07 by Anonymous

i did this to install linux on laptop without removeable media and the usb is not bootable.

http://it.dennyhalim.com/2008/03/install-linux-from-windows-wi...

debimg

Posted Fri, 2008-03-21 23:44 by Anonymous

"debimg is an alternative to debian-cd, written in Python and released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 3 or (at your option) any later version."

http://wiki.debian.org/DebImg

http://jak-linux.org/projects/debimg/

make_dvd.pl

Posted Thu, 2008-02-14 09:47 by Anonymous

"I got the original idea for these scripts from the article

http://www.linux.com/print.pl?sid=06/03/16/1724219

which referenced now unavailable site/script at nautopia.net

I did secure the copy of the "script" by using archived copies of the site, and while I liked the idea much, it consisted of distros that had little interest for me. Also it required the lot of manual work, as the main level "script" was just a wrapper for mkisofs(1)."

http://mikukkon.googlepages.com/make_dvd_05.tgz

Unidistro

Posted Mon, 2008-02-04 05:41 by Anonymous

"Unidistro aims to be a tool to easy create and maintain a linux distribution based on debian or ubuntu."

https://launchpad.net/unidistro

rootz 0.3.1

Posted Mon, 2008-01-21 13:15 by Anonymous

"The software distribution system that works differently.
rootz mounts complete live distros over the web, and make them available locally.
Attach your local linux system to various mirrors and simply
run applications, without any installation or prior downloads!

* No special repackaging is needed (as opposed to klik, zero install or autopackage).
* True "on demand" mechanism that does not require full download of the software but fetches only the needed files.
* Support multiple mixed images - run experimental apps from debian sid side by side with ubuntu stable app, fedora, mepis and more.
* Secured - unchanged, isolated (chrooted) images."

http://vamosproject.org/rootz

livecd Projects in Launchpad

Posted Fri, 2008-01-11 01:36 by Anonymous

Projects found matching “livecd”

https://launchpad.net/projects/?text=livecd

livecd-rootfs

Posted Fri, 2008-01-11 01:27 by Anonymous

"This is a small build system for the live filesystem included on Ubuntu desktop CDs."

https://launchpad.net/livecd-rootfs/

https://code.launchpad.net/livecd-rootfs

Minibuntu

Posted Sat, 2007-12-08 22:52 by Anonymous

"Minibuntu, the tiny Ubuntu remix you can build on!

You want to build your own Ubuntu based livecd, having the complete control over the installed software but you don't know where to start? Minibuntu is here to help you!

Minibuntu is a fully working Ubuntu livecd containing only the minimal set of software to make the system work. Minibuntu ISO image is only 138MB.

After downloading minibuntu you can use Ubuntu Customization Kit, Reconstructor or any other tool to remaster the ISO and add the software/configurations you want, building your own Ubuntu based livecd."

http://minibuntu.crealabs.it/

https://launchpad.net/minibuntu/

Opt-Get

Posted Thu, 2007-11-29 08:05 by Anonymous

"Opt-Get is a set of tools to add extra softwares into PUD, and help
developers to pack these plugins in a very easy way."

http://pud-linux.sourceforge.net/opt.en.html

grml-live

Posted Tue, 2007-11-27 09:29 by Anonymous

"grml-live - build framework based on FAI for generating a grml and Debian based Linux Live system (CD/ISO) [...]

grml-live provides the build system for creating a grml and Debian based Linux Live-CD. The build system is based on FAI (Fully Automatic Installation). grml-live uses the "fai dirinstall" feature to generate a chroot system based on the class concept of FAI (see later sections for further details) and provides the framework to be able to generate a full-featured ISO. It does not use all the FAI features by default though and you don't have to know FAI to be able to use it.

The use of FAI gives you the flexibility to choose the packages you would like to include on your very own Linux Live-CD without having to deal with all the details of a build process."

http://grml.org/grml-live/

mkinitrd-cd

Posted Tue, 2007-11-27 05:27 by Anonymous

"Creates an initrd image for booting from a live CD-ROM or USB device

This is the package used by the Gibraltar project to create the initrd images used for booting from CD-ROM or USB sticks. The bootable CD-ROMs or USB mass storage devices are actual live CD-ROMs respective live filesystems. That is, the root file system is the CD-ROM or an image on the USB device, ramdisks are the only things needed for operation without a hard disk. Although a harddisk can be used for e.g. storing log files permanently or when the machine acts as a proxy server.

Given a kernel image and the corresponding modules, it creates a complete boot image that can be written to floppy or be used as El Torito image for a bootable CD-ROM. Additionally, it is possible to create an initrd image to be used on a USB stick (e.g. with syslinux). Upon bootup, the initrd image will try to locate an ATAPI CD-ROM drive or a USB mass storage device. When this does not succeed, it auto-probes for SCSI adapters and tries to locate SCSI drives. It also works when multiple CD-ROM drives are installed in the system by checking if the inserted CD is the correct one for booting.

The package can be of use to developers and packagers who want to create their own bootable, live Debian CD-ROM or bootable, live Debian USB stick. It will probably not be of any use to others."

http://packages.debian.org/mkinitrd-cd

http://packages.debian.org/sid/mkinitrd-cd

http://www.mayrhofer.eu.org/mkinitrd-cd