We are going to describe how to go from a minimal standard installation to a complete remasterable system using get-eggs.
This procedure work on Debian (buster, bulleye, bookworm), Devuan (chimaera and daedalus), Ubuntu (bionic, focal and jammy) and Arch rolling.
I started with latest version of archiso: archlinux-2023.09.01-x86_64.iso.
Then, used archinstall to get a minimal installation. On Disk configuration choose Use a best-effort deault configuration layot, then btrfs or ext4, as you prefer.
Among the packages added: git, lsb-release, others packages will be installed later by get-eggs.
At this point, we MUST configure network, I just choose the most basic: Copy ISO configuration to installation.
Finally select install and wait it finish. Archinstall will propose you to chroot to continue configuration, answer no and reboot.
On Debian and Devuan we start with a common netinst, without install nothing except standard system utilies
When the installation finish, reboot the system.
We need now to install git and sudo.
Log on your system, then:
suapt install git sudo/usr/sbin/adduser artisan sudo
We can logout, and we are ready to the next step.
On Ubuntu, we install with the server edition, again without install nothing except the minimal base. Here, at the end of installation I use to remove package cloud-init we are not interested on.
After reboot, we need just to install git to be ready: sudo apt install git.
git clone https://github.com/pieroproietti/get-eggscd get-eggssudo ./get-eggs.sh
eggs will be installed and configured properly for the chosen distribution.
get-eggs.sh will install few packages bash-completion, dialog, man-db, nano, openssh and wget and will add AUR repository to pacman.conf.
At last get-eggs.sh will install penguins-eggs.
get-eggs.sh will install new ppa for penguins-eggs, then will install eggs and its dependencies.
Once eggs was installed, I proceeded to load the wardrobe and "dress" the system with the colibri costume.
eggs wardrobe getsudo eggs wardrobe wear colibri
At this point after rebooting, I found myself in the colibri graphical system and proceeded to install calamares with the command: sudo eggs calamares --install.
Well, we are ready to remaster the system, just a little reconfiguration and cleaning before:
sudo eggs dad -dsudo eggs tools cleansudo eggs produce --max --addons adapt
That's all folks!
