[plug] Debian mini-iso.sh script or boot-floppies .deb?

[Denis Brown]

Dear PLUG list members,

I'm in the process of making a customised install CD for Debian Woody - 
customised kernel with specific RAID controller drivers.   This will be the 
Gold Standard (tm) re-installation CD in case things turn nasty one 
day.   Rolling the new kernel is no problem but it is too large for a 
single floppy (surprise, surprise) so I turned my attention to Debian's, et 
al, instructions for making mini ISOs.   The information I have seen so far 
(and I've done a bit of digging!) is either incomplete, apparently 
contradictory or contains url's that point to inaccessible sites.   The 
latter most likely thanks to Debian's break-in.

So... does anyone have the mini-iso.sh script available, or the 
boot-floppies.deb please?   I figure that if I can read the script I should 
be able to work out what is going on and cobble together something to do 
the job.   After all, what should be involved is a boot loader, a kernel 
and some scripting to do the initial setup.   I have several .iso's 
including CD #1 from the Debian 3.0r1 set, the LordSutch mini-CD and 
another (micro?) iso from a university in Orlando.   The problem is getting 
at the guts of the iso image to transplant a kernel, modules and system map 
file, etc.

The UWA Debian mirror is generally up to date but apt-get barfs with 
package not found and the Debian package search site cannot find such a 
package now either.   Eduard Bloch's site on Debian alludes to the package 
/ scripts but cautions that since the break-in, many links are broken until 
everything has been thoroughly checked by the developers.   Fair enough, but...

Oh, the other thing I did was to create an ips.o driver module linked 
against the 3.0r1 CD kernel (2.4.18-bf2.4) and write it to floppy but it 
failed to load, even on the alternative console.   Don't recall now what 
the errors were but seemed pretty odd as I'd followed the recipe fairly 
accurately I thought :-(

So, mini-iso.sh or boot-floppies.deb, anyone?

TIA,
Denis

PS Once I get this sorted it seems to me that others may be interested in 
the process.   A LinMagAu article perhaps, if interested? :-)