Luca Morettoni
Versione Italiana

FreeSBIE-ng

The goal of this new FreeSBIE release is to organize the scripts in a better way and separate the core functions for creating a FreeSBIE base system and the ones for the personalization and configuration of the resulting system.
Moreover, I wanted to concentrate all the scripts under a Makefile, leaving only four external scripts for the most complex operations.

The files and directories you will find in the packages are:

Makefile: The main FreeSBIE file;
Makefile.freesbie: the FreeSBIE configuration file (optional);
files: directory containing all the necessary files for FreeSBIE;
scripts: directory containing all the scripts needed for the configuration of the system.

You simply have to issue the make command to start, or make help to get a help on how to start.
The main steps are:

make config: to create the FreeSBIE configuration file;
make freesbie: to effectively make the build and generate the FreeSBIE filesystem hierarchy;
make iso: in order to generate FreeSBIE.iso.

Before generating the ISO file, it is also possible to configure FreeSBIE and/or add the desired packages. To do this, we'll use:

make scripts: to add the FreeSBIE boot scripts;
make packages: to manage the packages inside FreeSBIE.

If you would like to create a "minimal" version of FreeSBIE, you'll have to define the FREESBIE_MINI tag before every make command (or by adding FREESBIE_MINI=yes to your make.conf).

There are other targets in the Makefile, of which I'll add a description in the future, for no, refer to the information provided by the make help command.

Download and test the FreeSBIE-ng package!!!