[CALUG] Rolling your own distro, building an img file

[Chuck Frain]

I might be underthinking this, but what I do when I get images customized
for a Pi device is create an image from the SD card with some disk imaging
tool. I also use this as my backup solution.

On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 7:40 AM Thomas Delrue <thomas at epistulae.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm sorta trying to roll my own distro for Raspberry Pi's. Fear not, I'm
> totally basing it off of Raspbian but I want to add some additional
> stuff on top of Raspbian that isn't there. And I want to make it so that
> when I burn an IMG of my "my own distro" onto a new SD card, it's got
> everything I know I'll want in there, already in it!
>
> Basically, what I'd like to do is make it so that I have an .img file
> with everything already in it and that - just like raspbian - expands on
> first boot to take up the entire volume.
>
> Unfortunately, I have no idea how to get started with this, at all, hence:
> does anyone have any pointers they could share?
>
> Thanks
>
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