It's time for me to start upgrading my CentOS 6.x stuff to a newer distro. Rather than having to manually configure everything each time. (ex: making sure certain packages are installed or certain config files are a certain way etc) I want to automate it better and I also want it to be self contained in an ISO for offline installs. I'm leaning towards also switching to Debian as it's probably considered a bit more "standard" so I would be doing this with Debian most likely.
I read up on simple-cdd, so I think this is what I want to use, but I really can't find much details on how to use it. It talks about brief stuff like "the configuration file" or profiles, but no details on what these actual files are called, where yo put them, or the different options you can put in them etc. Same with preseed files. Like if I want to select a locale, where is the list of possible locales? Lot of details like that I can't really find. Everything I read on it is really brief.
Can someone point me to a place where it goes into more step by step details of how to setup a custom ISO? Essentially what I want is to have it preinstall specific packages and have those packages be on the ISO. I also want to be able to update the packages from the online repo once in a while to update my ISO. Lot of other minor things I may not be thinking of that I may want to do. Bottom line is just looking for some kind of tutorial that covers all the options, and possibilities of options. Have not been too successful in finding proper detailed info when googling.
I read up on simple-cdd, so I think this is what I want to use, but I really can't find much details on how to use it. It talks about brief stuff like "the configuration file" or profiles, but no details on what these actual files are called, where yo put them, or the different options you can put in them etc. Same with preseed files. Like if I want to select a locale, where is the list of possible locales? Lot of details like that I can't really find. Everything I read on it is really brief.
Can someone point me to a place where it goes into more step by step details of how to setup a custom ISO? Essentially what I want is to have it preinstall specific packages and have those packages be on the ISO. I also want to be able to update the packages from the online repo once in a while to update my ISO. Lot of other minor things I may not be thinking of that I may want to do. Bottom line is just looking for some kind of tutorial that covers all the options, and possibilities of options. Have not been too successful in finding proper detailed info when googling.