Using debootstrap
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Debootstrap is a tool for creating a basic Debian system. Thus far this has proven useful to me for the purpose of installing onto SATA hard disks, and preparing minimal images for use with emulators (see Preparing a Debian disk image for Bochs).
baal:/tmp/debootstrap# mkdir root baal:/tmp/debootstrap# debootstrap --verbose sarge root ... baal:/tmp/debootstrap# du -s root/* 2692 root/bin 4 root/boot 108 root/dev 1640 root/etc 4 root/home 4 root/initrd 6188 root/lib 4 root/media 4 root/mnt 4 root/opt 4 root/proc 12 root/root 2588 root/sbin 4 root/srv 4 root/sys 4 root/tmp 79196 root/usr 54196 root/var baal:/tmp/debootstrap#
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Packages installed
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ ii adduser 3.63 Add and remove users and groups ii apt 0.5.28.6 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii apt-utils 0.5.28.6 APT utility programs ii aptitude 0.2.15.9-2 terminal-based apt frontend ii at 3.1.8-11 Delayed job execution and batch processing ii base-config 2.53.10.2 Debian base system configurator ii base-files 3.1.2 Debian base system miscellaneous files ii base-passwd 3.5.9 Debian base system master password and group ii bash 2.05b-26 The GNU Bourne Again SHell ii bsdmainutils 6.0.17 collection of more utilities from FreeBSD ii bsdutils 2.12p-4sarge1 Basic utilities from 4.4BSD-Lite ii console-common 0.7.49 Basic infrastructure for text console config ii console-data 2002.12.04dbs- Keymaps, fonts, charset maps, fallback table ii console-tools 0.2.3dbs-56 Linux console and font utilities ii coreutils 5.2.1-2 The GNU core utilities ii cpio 2.5-1.3 GNU cpio -- a program to manage archives of ii cron 3.0pl1-86 management of regular background processing ii debconf 1.4.30.13 Debian configuration management system ii debconf-i18n 1.4.30.13 full internationalization support for debcon ii debianutils 2.8.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific to Debian ii dhcp-client 2.0pl5-19.1sar DHCP Client ii diff 2.8.1-11 File comparison utilities ii dpkg 1.10.28 Package maintenance system for Debian ii dselect 1.10.28 a user tool to manage Debian packages ii e2fslibs 1.37-2sarge1 ext2 filesystem libraries ii e2fsprogs 1.37-2sarge1 ext2 file system utilities and libraries ii ed 0.2-20 The classic unix line editor ii exim4 4.50-8sarge2 metapackage to ease exim MTA (v4) installati ii exim4-base 4.50-8sarge2 support files for all exim MTA (v4) packages ii exim4-config 4.50-8sarge2 configuration for the exim MTA (v4) ii exim4-daemon-l 4.50-8sarge2 lightweight exim MTA (v4) daemon ii fdutils 5.4-20040228-1 Linux floppy utilities ii findutils 4.1.20-6 utilities for finding files--find, xargs, an ii gcc-3.3-base 3.3.5-13 The GNU Compiler Collection (base package) ii gettext-base 0.14.4-2 GNU Internationalization utilities for the b ii grep 2.5.1.ds1-4 GNU grep, egrep and fgrep ii groff-base 1.18.1.1-7 GNU troff text-formatting system (base syste ii gzip 1.3.5-10sarge2 The GNU compression utility ii hostname 2.13 A utility to set/show the host name or domai ii ifupdown 0.6.7 high level tools to configure network interf ii info 4.7-2.2sarge2 Standalone GNU Info documentation browser ii initscripts 2.86.ds1-1 Standard scripts needed for booting and shut ii ipchains 1.3.10-15 Network firewalling for Linux 2.2.x ii iptables 1.2.11-10 Linux kernel 2.4+ iptables administration to ii iputils-ping 20020927-2 Tools to test the reachability of network ho ii klogd 1.4.1-17 Kernel Logging Daemon ii libacl1 2.2.23-1 Access control list shared library ii libattr1 2.4.16-1 Extended attribute shared library ii libblkid1 1.37-2sarge1 block device id library ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22sa GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone ii libcap1 1.10-14 support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabil ii libcomerr2 1.37-2sarge1 common error description library ii libconsole 0.2.3dbs-56 Shared libraries for Linux console and font ii libdb1-compat 2.1.3-7 The Berkeley database routines [glibc 2.0/2. ii libdb3 3.2.9-22 Berkeley v3 Database Libraries [runtime] ii libdb4.2 4.2.52-18 Berkeley v4.2 Database Libraries [runtime] ii libgcc1 3.4.3-13sarge1 GCC support library ii libgcrypt11 1.2.0-11.1 LGPL Crypto library - runtime library ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-2 GNU dbm database routines (runtime version) ii libgnutls11 1.0.16-13.2sar GNU TLS library - runtime library ii libgpg-error0 1.0-1 library for common error values and messages ii liblocale-gett 1.01-17 Using libc functions for internationalizatio ii liblockfile1 1.06 NFS-safe locking library, includes dotlockfi ii liblzo1 1.08-1.2 A real-time data compression library ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal handling ii libnewt0.51 0.51.6-20 Not Erik's Windowing Toolkit - text mode win ii libopencdk8 0.5.5-10 Open Crypto Development Kit (OpenCDK) (runti ii libpam-modules 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modules for PAM ii libpam-runtime 0.76-22 Runtime support for the PAM library ii libpam0g 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modules library ii libpcap0.7 0.7.2-7 System interface for user-level packet captu ii libpcre3 4.5-1.2sarge1 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expression Library ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii libsigc++-1.2- 1.2.5-4 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ - runtime ii libss2 1.37-2sarge1 command-line interface parsing library ii libssl0.9.7 0.9.7e-3sarge4 SSL shared libraries ii libstdc++5 3.3.5-13 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libtasn1-2 0.2.10-3sarge1 Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime) ii libtext-charwi 0.04-1 get display widths of characters on the term ii libtext-iconv- 1.2-3 Convert between character sets in Perl ii libtext-wrapi1 0.06-1 internationalized substitute of Text::Wrap ii libtextwrap1 0.1-1 text-wrapping library with i18n - runtime ii libuuid1 1.37-2sarge1 universally unique id library ii libwrap0 7.6.dbs-8 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers library ii login 4.0.3-31sarge9 system login tools ii logrotate 3.7-5 Log rotation utility ii mailx 8.1.2-0.200405 A simple mail user agent ii makedev 2.3.1-77 creates device files in /dev ii man-db 2.4.2-21sarge1 The on-line manual pager ii manpages 1.70-1 Manual pages about using a GNU/Linux system ii mawk 1.3.3-11 a pattern scanning and text processing langu ii modutils 2.4.26-1.2 Linux module utilities ii mount 2.12p-4sarge1 Tools for mounting and manipulating filesyst ii nano 1.2.4-5 free Pico clone with some new features ii ncurses-base 5.4-4 Descriptions of common terminal types ii ncurses-bin 5.4-4 Terminal-related programs and man pages ii net-tools 1.60-10 The NET-3 networking toolkit ii netbase 4.21 Basic TCP/IP networking system ii netkit-inetd 0.10-10 The Internet Superserver ii nvi 1.79-22 4.4BSD re-implementation of vi ii passwd 4.0.3-31sarge9 change and administer password and group dat ii pciutils 2.1.11-15 Linux PCI Utilities ii perl-base 5.8.4-8sarge5 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister ii ppp 2.4.3-20050321 Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) daemon ii pppconfig 2.3.11 A text menu based utility for configuring pp ii pppoe 3.5-4 PPP over Ethernet driver ii pppoeconf 1.7 configures PPPoE/ADSL connections ii procps 3.2.1-2 The /proc file system utilities ii psmisc 21.5-1 Utilities that use the proc filesystem ii sed 4.1.2-8 The GNU sed stream editor ii slang1a-utf8 1.4.9dbs-8 The S-Lang programming library with utf8 sup ii sysklogd 1.4.1-17 System Logging Daemon ii sysv-rc 2.86.ds1-1 Standard boot mechanism using symlinks in /e ii sysvinit 2.86.ds1-1 System-V like init ii tar 1.14-2.3 GNU tar ii tasksel 2.24 Tool for selecting tasks for installation on ii tcpd 7.6.dbs-8 Wietse Venema's TCP wrapper utilities ii telnet 0.17-29 The telnet client ii util-linux 2.12p-4sarge1 Miscellaneous system utilities ii wget 1.9.1-12 retrieves files from the web ii whiptail 0.51.6-20 Displays user-friendly dialog boxes from she ii zlib1g 1.2.2-4.sarge. compression library - 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