[User-mode-linux-user] Any Debian experts out there?

[Jeff D. <jd...@ka...>]

I've a whole bunch of CDs with various distros on them and I'm planning on 
putting together a bunch of filesystems from them so that people can play with 
a new distro by downloading the appropriate filesystem.

Right now, I'm playing with Debian.  What I need is some procedure for 
starting with a CD and an empty filesystem and ending with a filesystem that 
will boot a reasonable system.

I've got the Debian install tools in another filesystem (the Debian filesystem 
that I distribute - my outer system has RH on it).  In order to get dpkg to 
even think about working in the empty filesystem, I had to do a bunch of 
mkdirs and touch a bunch of files that it expected to already be there.

After that, it kind of went through some motions and gave me more errors which 
I didn't understand.

So, what's the official way to do this?  There's probably some kind of 
bootstrap environment that the install uses to get dpkg up and running.

And if anyone has the equivalent answers for other distros, I've got the 
following:
	Debian 2.1
	Slackware 7.0
	Stampede Linux Edition 3
	Linux-Mandrake 7.0
	Caldera OpenLinux 2.3
	Red Hat 6.1
	Suse 6.3

				Jeff