When booting from ISO you need to select 'Install to Hard Disk' (or words to that effect - ie hit the down button) on the boot splash screen. Otherwise it will boot to a live system (like it sounds you are now...).

I just downloaded it to test it out and realised that the option isn't to install, it's to boot from hard drive - as you no doubt already realised... Sorry about that, I'll have a bit of a play and see...

And IMO I think you'd be better off installing Core and stripping what you want out. Or just do a normal minimal Debian server install.

I'm certainly no Debian guru or anything but the only way I can see to do it would be to muck around installing a heap of packages and you'd end up with something that it basically a minimal Debian Server install anyway... Someone with more knowledge than me, please feel free to tell me I'm wrong...

I'm pretty sure I used something like Unetbootin to create a live USB of a TKL machine iso (LAMP in my server, but it should work with all the TKL instances). From there, just follow the instructions.

However IIRC it does allow for the creation of a 'persistent' file (like a virtual FS that mounts on boot) which could theoretically acheive the same ends (although not strictly speaking an 'installation').

Only thing is though I'm not sure it that'll work with the new Debian based appliances as I think it relies on Casper (which AFAIK is Ubuntu specific).

Couple of other thoughts:

Going back to my idea of rebuilding from scratch, you could collect a list of all the installed packages in the JEOS (like this) and either from a vanilla Debian install or Core, whittle it back down.

Another thought (which I'm not sure whether it would work or not...) is to use some sort of tool like RemasterSys (which AFAIK is now defunct, but Debian has packages that acheive the same ends) to create a new ISO based on the Live JEOS (which would hopefully be installable... although not sure...). I know that somewhere here on the forums, someone has posted how to 'remaster' an installation which may be worth a try, but be blowed if I can find it ATM...

Sorry for the very late reply. I took a needed vacation after the TurnKey 12.0 release and enjoyed meatspace with little to no internet access traveling around Switzerland with the family.

Anyway, to the issue at hand, TurnKey Bootstrap (aka. JEOS) doesn't include any TurnKey developed components - such as the di-live installer. But you can install it in the live system and use it to install the system to the harddisk.

The process goes like this:

apt-get update
apt-get install di-live
di-live # in the partitioner, select 'use entire disk' as there is no LVM support
reboot

Note that the root account has a blank password, so just hit enter to log in, then change the password immediately.

That said, I still recommend using TurnKey Core instead of Bootstrap, and remove what it not required. TurnKey Bootstrap is more of a proof-of-concept and not designed for production out of the box.

Hi Ziv,

If you don't mind, please share your experiences with this project.  I'm doing what amounts to the same thing and I would appreciate any feedback you could give. 

Regards,

James Rasmussen

Mainly wanted to know what your process was to manage/export jeOS based VM's, but it sounds like you've moved on.

No worries, thanks for the quick reply!