Create A Custom Debian Live-CD (ISO File)
(Based on "Debian 10 (buster)" 64Bits)

- Open your Internet browser, then download and install "Debian 10 Buster" (amd64) [if you want, you can install on a virtual machine]:

- Start Debian 10 (buster)

- Open a terminal (If you can as "root" user, else prefix almost all below commands with "sudo ")

- And Install pre-requisites packages with this 2 commands (without #>):

- Now create the base live-cd directory (and the project skeleton) with this commands (without #>):

- Then edit the "auto/config" file (here with "vim" but you can edit with another text editor):

- And copy and save below content on this file (Overwrite all content with this content):
#!/bin/sh set -e lb config noauto \ --mode "debian" \ --system "live" \ --architectures "amd64" \ --distribution "buster" \ --archive-areas "main contrib non-free" \ --security "true" \ --updates "true" \ --backports "true" \ --binary-filesystem "fat32" \ --binary-images "iso-hybrid" \ --apt-indices "true" \ --apt-recommends "true" \ --apt-secure "true" \ --apt-source-archives "true" \ --linux-packages "linux-image" \ --bootloader "syslinux" \ --debian-installer "false" \ --debian-installer-gui "false" \ --iso-application "livecd" \ --iso-volume "livecd" \ --memtest "memtest86+" \ --clean \ --source "false" \ "${@}"
(You can adjust parameters, if you want more informations about "lb config", enter command "man lb config")
(However it's highly recommended to keep the parameter "--apt-recommends" with the "true" value, otherwise you may not be able to auto-login)


- Then edit the "config/package-lists/live.list.chroot" file (here with "vim" but you can edit with another text editor):

- And copy and save below content on this file (Overwrite all content with this content):
live-boot live-config live-config-systemd linux-image-amd64


- [Optional] Edit/create a "config/package-lists/custom.list.chroot" new file (here with "vim" but you can edit with another text editor):

- And write all additional packages you want on your live-cd (below, this is just an example with "xfce4" desktop and some additional packages for "Debian 10 buster"):
xorg xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-qxl xfce4 xfdesktop4 slim xterm xfce4-terminal adduser gnupg eject desktop-base locales console-data console-setup console-setup-linux console-common keyboard-configuration binutils sudo lsb-release apt aptitude dbus dbus-x11 libnotify-bin firmware-linux-free usbutils grub2 locate tree screen terminator htop iotop vim nano hexedit gedit ghex evince tar gzip bzip2 lzma xz-utils zip unzip unrar-free p7zip-full dosfstools ntfs-3g mtools e2fsprogs xfsprogs gparted gddrescue ddrescueview myrescue safecopy magicrescue testdisk perl python python-twisted-web sqlite3 openssl git subversion net-tools iw wpasupplicant wireless-tools rfkill iftop bwm-ng ssh wget curl telnet netcat nmap macchanger samba smbclient nfs-common traceroute rsync gftp pidgin firefox-esr arping hping3 dsniff sslstrip nbtscan john aircrack-ng pixiewps reaver keepass2
(You can add or remove what you want, just additional packages you want on your live-cd, this example is big => the final size is about 805 MB)


- [Optional] If you want include others files or folders on live-cd, just copy files or folders (from your local system) to "config/includes.chroot/" folder:
  [If you copy files or folders on the "config/includes.chroot/" folder, this is overwrite files or folders on live-cd]

  [Example, here I copy the folder "/opt/" from my local system, and on live-cd I have the same folder and its content on "/opt/" folder]


- OK you are now ready to build the live-cd (ISO file)...

- To build the live-cd (ISO file), just enter this 2 commands:

- And wait for the end of process... (It takes a lot of time, it depends of your configurations and your PC, soo just waiting...)

- When the process is finished (Without error...), you have now your live-cd (ISO file) !

- To watch if you have build the ISO file, just enter the command "ls -l", and normally you should see something like that:

- To conclude

You can now burn the ISO file on a CD or DVD (depends on the size) or you can also create a bootable USB key (Read the "Rufus" tutorial)
And start your live Debian on your PC (or on a virtual machine)