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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

simple-cdd

SIMPLE-CDD(1)						      General Commands Manual						     SIMPLE-CDD(1)

NAME

       simple-cdd - create custom debian-installer CDs

SYNOPSIS

       simple-cdd [options]

OPTIONS

       --conf Specify a configuration file

       --dist Specify a distribution (etch, lenny, sid)

       --graphical-installer|-g
	      Enable graphical installer by default

       --serial-console|-s
	      Set defaults for serial console

       --do-mirror
	      Generate a local mirror

       --no-do-mirror
	      Do not generate a local mirror

       --profiles|-p
	      Select profiles (Examples in /usr/share/simple-cdd/profiles/ directory)

       --build-profiles|-b
	      Profiles only used while building the CD

       --auto-profiles|-a
	      Pre-select and automatically install these profiles

       --local-packages
	      List of packages to be included on CD's local package repository

       --locale
	      Select locale (language and country)

       --keyboard
	      Select keyboard (console-keymaps-at/keymap debconf question)

       --debian-mirror
	      Specify debian mirror (The default is: ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian)

       --security-mirror
	      Specify securty mirror (The default is: http://security.debian.org/)

       --mirror-tools
	      List the mirror tools to be used (The defaults are both wget and reprepro)

       --kernel-packages
	      List of kernel packages to be included on the CD

       --help|-h
	      Display the usage message

       --qemu|-q
	      Use qemu to test the built image

       --force-preseed
	      Only issue a warning if a preseeding file is invalid

       --profiles-udeb-dist
	      Specify distribution to pull simple-cdd-profiles udeb from

       --extra-udeb-dist
	      Specify additional distribution to pull udebs from

EXAMPLES

       simple-cdd --profiles x-basic -g
	      Build  a	custom	image  using  the  default  options,  except  for using the graphical installer by default and the x-basic profile
	      (/usr/share/simple-cdd/x-basic.*)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Gustavo Franco <stratus@acm.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used for others).

								  Oct 28th, 2007						     SIMPLE-CDD(1)

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