The following sequence of helper commands, provided by live-helper,
will create a basic ISO image containing just the Debian standard system
without X.org. It is suitable for burning to CD or DVD media.
First, we run the lh config helper command which
will create a "config/" hierarchy in the current
directory for use by other helper commands:
$ lh config
By passing no parameters to lh config we indicated
that we wish to use the defaults. This will create an image of type
binary (see Section 4.1.1, “The lh config helper”).
Now that we have a "config/" hierarchy, we may
build the image with the lh build helper command:
# lh build
This process can take a while, depending on the speed of your network
connection (see Section 4.1.2, “The lh build helper”).
Testing an ISO is simple:
# apt-get install qemu $ qemu -cdrom binary.iso