09-14-2004
Searched some more but still none the wiser as to which to go for.
Due to a sort out of my spare hardware I thought I'd add some more info.
I'll now be using an Athlon 2400+ & 512Mb of PC3200 Memory which I'll buy a mobo and Gfx card for that has good Linux support. Would now like support for USB2, Firewire, Gb Lan (and 100Mb Lan on a separate port). I also have a RocketRaid Controller which I intend to use.
A degree of auto detection within the distribution installer would be nice, and the ability to automatically recognise any additional NTFS partitioned drives I install later.
Is this possible?
The thing I REALLY need to know is WHICH linux to start with.
A big thanks for the name of the distribution I should be installing.
Mark.
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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)