[TriLUG] Rolling your own distro, building an img file

[John Vaughters via TriLUG]

Thomas,

I cannot give you a complete direction, but I will say this. Start looking at the existing images, out there now. Mount them and dig into the start up scripts. On the disk expansion, there are common tools for doing that and they are just writing smart scripts that you can find and mimic. I have done this in the past, but it was just fleeting work and the details are not retained in persistent memory`,~) However, the process was retained, so I would advise to start looking at what others have done. 

Good Luck!

John Vaughters






On Tuesday, April 7, 2020, 07:39:53 AM EDT, Thomas Delrue via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote: 





Hi,

I'm sorta trying to roll my own distro for Raspberry Pi's. Fear not, I'm
totally basing it off of Raspbian but I want to add some additional
stuff on top of Raspbian that isn't there. And I want to make it so that
when I burn an IMG of my "my own distro" onto a new SD card, it's got
everything I know I'll want in there, already in it!

Basically, what I'd like to do is make it so that I have an .img file
with everything already in it and that - just like raspbian - expands on
first boot to take up the entire volume.

Unfortunately, I have no idea how to get started with this, at all, hence:
does anyone have any pointers they could share?

Thanks
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