system-images_base-system(7)

minimal live and installer image

Description

SYSTEM-IMAGES-BASE

NAME

system-images_base-system - minimal live and installer image

DESCRIPTION

"In computing, configuration files, or config files configure the initial settings for some computer programs."

-- Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Configuration_file)

system-images contains configuration trees of some Debian based live and installer images.

DOWNLOAD

• Upstream Releases: https://files.open-infrastructure.net/software/system-images/upstream

• Upstream Sources: https://sources.open-infrastructure.net/software/system-images

• Debian Releases: https://files.open-infrastructure.net/software/system-images/debian

• Debian Sources: https://sources.progress-linux.org/users/daniel/debian/packages/open-infrastructure-system-images

INSTALLATION

SOURCE

1. sudo apt install asciidoc git docbook-xml docbook-xsl libxml2-utils make xsltproc imagemagick librsvg2-bin

2. git clone https://sources.open-infrastructure.net/software/system-images

3. cd system-images && sudo make install

DEBIAN 9 (STRETCH) AND NEWER

• sudo apt install system-images

DEVELOPMENT

Bug reports, feature requests, help, patches, support and everything else are welcome on the Open Infrastructure Software Mailing List:

• https://lists.open-infrastructure.net/listinfo/software

Please base patches against the next Git branch using common sense:

• https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/SubmittingPatches

Debian specific bugs can also be reported in the Debian Bug Tracking System:

• https://bugs.debian.org

USAGE

The following configuration trees are available:

• base-system: a Debian based, minmal system, see https://debian.org

• container-server: a Container Server system using container-tools, see https://open-infrastructure.net/software/container-tools

• gnome-desktop: a GNOME Desktop system using GNOME, see https://gnome.org

A software called system-build can be used to automatically build images from this configuration tree.

system-build can be obtained from https://open-infrastructure.net/software/system-build.

On Debian based systems, system-build can be installed with:

# apt-get install system-build

system-build can be used to build this image with the following command executed in this directory::

# lb build

AUTHORS

• Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@open-infrastructure.net>