debian-live-workstation

This repository is used to create a live build of Debian Buster. The main use of this is to burn an image to flash drive, and use it as workstation.

Specification:

• Debian Version: Buster
• Desktop Environment: Mate
• Window Manager: i3
• Build: Minimal (disabled installation of additional packages recommended by apt)
• Included Packages: Graphics, Browsers, LibreOffice, Programming Tools, Virtualization Tools (KVM with libvirtd, virt-manager as GUI), Docker-CE, Discord, Tessaract OCR Tool
• Persistence: Active with LUKS encryption
• Estimated Image Size: ~2.5GB

Building

1. The image will be built by using container. Use the Dockerfile to generate a container for live build. Buildah is used in creating the container image.

buildah bud -f Dockerfile -t debian-live .

2. Run the container using podman. The container needs privilaged access to the host system. You also need to use persistent storage for the image file, with exec,dev flags.

podman run -ti --privileged --name debian-live -v vdebian:/app:exec,dev debian-live

3. Go to /app directory. Clone this repository, and go inside the repository's directory.

cd /app;
git clone https://github.com/ZeroExistence/debian-live-workstation.git;
cd debian-live-workstation

4. Run the live build command.

lb build