This script will create a remastered tinycorelinux image that can be used in Packer.

You want this if you need a mean and lean Linux that starts in RAM. This is useful to create Packer images from distributions that don't provide an installation medium that can be directly used by Packer.

• A user packer with password packer is added
• Autologin is disabled
• Configures and starts opensshd
• Installs Bash
• Adds SCSI drivers and loads them during boot

It's easily possible to add additional extensions to the image. Just add the names of the extensions to the EXTENSIONS array in the script.

Adding additional changes to configurations in the image can be added to the customize* functions.

You need a few tools to run this script. It was developed on RHEL but should run on any linux that has the following tools available:

• unsquashfs (squashfs-tools)
• advdef (advancecomp)
• mkisofs (mkisofs)

{
  "builders": [
    {
      "type": "vmware-iso",
      "iso_url": "tinycore-packer.iso",
      "iso_checksum_type": "md5",
      "iso_checksum": "d3253d19bcf9da61cbb44cf76db118c6",
      "boot_wait": "3s",
      "disk_size": 40960,
      "disk_type_id": 0,
      "boot_command": [ "<enter>" ],
      "ssh_username": "packer",
      "ssh_password": "packer",
      "skip_compaction": false
    }
  ]
}