For Newbies - Debian Squeeze Install in a TAR file

Hi everyone,

Is anyone interested in a Debian Squeeze based system with NFS, SAMBA, Transmission, SABNZBD, all pre-installed in a nice TAR file that you extract and Bob's your uncle?

I've always been meaning to do this but never knew how to till I came across Jeff's script which uses debootstrap.

Take care,

Daze

Not sure what do you mean. I don't think debootstrap use TAR file. Am I wrong about this?

Hi twinclouds,

debootstrap can download all the required .deb packages and create a TAR file. Using this method, users can just download the TAR file which will have all of the required packages pre-downloaded. The advantage is that it will reduce the time required to download each individual package from the Internet, especially for those that are on slow links. The disadvantage is that some packages may get out of date, but that can be fixed after by running a simple apt-get update; apt-get upgrade.

Is this worth pursuing?

I guess where I am headed to is this... I want to have a bunch of packages installed, and pre-configured so that they more-or-less work out of the box. And any configuration required can be done through a simple web page. If there isn't a lot of interest, then I probably won't do this...

Please, let's talk about this!

Daze

Hi Daze,

take a look at Jeff's lenny-script, he downloads a prebuilt tarball with everything except the kernel in it.
I think this is what you need to if you want to publish a tarball.

If you just want to install some more packages and create several config files you may want to look at gorgone's advanced squeeze script. He uses Jeff's script and installs additional stuff afterwards.

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I like the Lenny approach better than the current Squeeze installation procedure. If that is Daze means, I would say it will be worthwhile effort.

Hi twinclouds,

I will be working on extending it to Squeeze. Thanks for the encouragement.

Daze