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

[Matt Flyer via TriLUG]

If you're looking for some ideas of where to look for documentation:

The Gentoo handbook might be a good option because the distribution is
very much about choice and hence goes into a lot of details as to
advantages and disadvantages of certain options.

In my personal opinion, the Arch (one of my preferred distributions)
Wiki is pretty good and often times comes up with solid information
when I search for a particular subject.

Of course there is always Linux from Scratch which explains a lot of
low level things in great detail.

Just a few thoughts that popped into my head regarding some of the less
regimented distros... 


On Tue, 2020-04-07 at 12:55 +0000, John Vaughters via TriLUG wrote:
> 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
> 
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> On Tuesday, April 7, 2020, 07:39:53 AM EDT, Thomas Delrue via TriLUG
> <trilug at trilug.org> wrote: 
> 
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> 
> 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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