Building Alpha Install Disk

Official documentation for the process: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Build

• Install some packages first

    git
    subversion
    mr
  

• Pull down the debian installer source

    cd /opt
    mkdir da-installer
    svn co svn://svn.debian.org/svn/d-i/trunk debian-installer
    cd debian-installer
  

• Setup the environment

    scripts/git-setup
    mr -p checkout
    cd installer
    apt-get build-dep debian-installer
    dpkg-checkbuilddeps