About

This script will:

1. download and verify the latest Debian "Jessie" ISO
2. ... do some magic to turn it into a vagrant box file
3. output debian-jessie-i386.box or debian-jessie-amd64.box

Requirements

• Oracle VM VirtualBox
• Vagrant
• mkisofs for generating a custom Debian CD image
• 7zip for unpacking the Debian ISO image
• md5sum or md5 for Debian ISO image hash check

Usage on OSX

./build.sh

This should do everything you need. If you don't have mkisofs or p7zip, install homebrew, then:

brew install cdrtools
brew install p7zip

To add debian-jessie-amd64.box with name debian-jessie into vagrant:

vagrant box add "debian-jessie" debian-jessie-amd64.box

Usage on Linux

./build.sh

This should do everything you need. If you don't have mkisofs or p7zip:

sudo apt-get install genisoimage
sudo apt-get install p7zip-full

To add debian-jessie-amd64.box with name debian-jessie into vagrant:

vagrant box add "debian-jessie" debian-jessie-amd64.box

Usage on Windows (under cygwin/git shell)

./build.sh

Tested under Windows 7 with this tools:

• cpio
• md5
• 7zip
• mkisofs

To add debian-jessie-amd64.box with name debian-jessie into vagrant:

vagrant box add "debian-jessie" debian-jessie.box

Environment variables

You can affect the default behaviour of the script using environment variables:

VAR=value ./build.sh

The following variables are supported:

• ARCH - Architecture to build. Either i386 or amd64. Default is amd64;

• DEBIAN_CDIMAGE - Domain to download the Debian installer from. Default is cdimage.debian.org. Example: ftp.de.debian.org;

• PRESEED — Path to custom preseed file. May be useful when if you need some customizations for your private base box (user name, passwords etc.);

• LATE_CMD — Path to custom late_command.sh. May be useful when if you need some customizations for your private base box (user name, passwords etc.);

• VM_GUI — If set to yes or 1, disables headless mode for vm. May be useful for debugging installer;

License

Licensed under the MIT license: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php