Developing Debian 9 Stretch based minimal (under 400mb zipped) raw image

With Wayland/Weston interface

Image is Grub 2 bootable

Network enabled

DD write direct to device (usb, sda ect)

Mounted locally read/write in chroot environment

Mounted with Qemu.

Download ext4fs-weston-img.zip

First unzip

(These instruction are appropriate for Fedora 27, please adjust accordingly)

$su -c "qemu-kvm -m 2048 -name deb-min -drive format=raw,file=/path/to/ext4fs.img -vga std -usbdevice tablet"

Login: user password: user

Login: root password: root

$weston-launch

$su -c "dd if=/path/to/ext4fs.img of=/dev/sdX bs=8M status=progress oflag=direct"

$mkdir tmp

$su

#mount -t ext4 -o loop,rw ./ext4fs.img ./tmp

#mount --bind /dev ./tmp/dev

#mount --bind /dev/pts ./tmp/dev/pts

#mount --bind /proc ./tmp/proc

#mount --bind /sys ./tmp/sys

#mount --bind /etc/resolv.conf ./tmp/etc/resolv.conf

#chroot ./tmp

#exit

#umount ./tmp/dev

#umount ./tmp/dev/pts

#umount ./tmp/proc

#umount ./tmp/sys

#umount ./tmp/etc/resolv.conf

#umount ./tmp