<h1id="DetailsoftheCryptoBox">Details of the CryptoBox</h1>
<h2id="dfsbuild">dfsbuild</h2>
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The base system of the <ahref="CryptoBox.html">CryptoBox</a> Live-CD is created by <aclass="ext-link"title="http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?searchon=names&subword=0&version=all&release=all&keywords=dfsbuild"href="http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?searchon=names&subword=0&version=all&release=all&keywords=dfsbuild">dfsbuild</a>.
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It is recommended to use some kind of caching tool for the retrieval of the debian packages (e.g.: <aclass="ext-link"title="http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?searchon=names&subword=0&version=all&release=all&keywords=apt-cacher"href="http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?searchon=names&subword=0&version=all&release=all&keywords=apt-cacher">apt-cacher</a>, <aclass="ext-link"title="http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?searchon=names&subword=0&version=all&release=all&keywords=apt-proxy"href="http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?searchon=names&subword=0&version=all&release=all&keywords=apt-proxy">apt-proxy</a> or <aclass="ext-link"title="http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?searchon=names&subword=0&version=all&release=all&keywords=approx"href="http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?searchon=names&subword=0&version=all&release=all&keywords=approx">approx</a>). This saves a lot of bandwidth and time.
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The documentation for <aclass="ext-link"title="http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?searchon=names&subword=0&version=all&release=all&keywords=dfsbuild"href="http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?searchon=names&subword=0&version=all&release=all&keywords=dfsbuild">dfsbuild</a> is sparse. But it is quite unlikely, that you will get in direct contact with it, as it is wrapped by <ahref="/trac/cryptobox/browser/trunk/scripts/cbox-build.sh">cbox-build</a>. However the following links may help you for specific problems:
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<ul><li><aclass="ext-link"title="http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/125"href="http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/125">Debian Administration: Building Debian CD-ROMS Part 1 - dfsbuild</a>
</li><li><aclass="ext-link"title="http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/149"href="http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/149">Debian Administration: Getting in deep with dfsbuild</a>
</li></ul><h2id="thekernel">the kernel</h2>
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The linux kernel for the <ahref="CryptoBox.html">CryptoBox</a> is compiled statically. If you want to change it, you could follow this steps:
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<ol><li>get the sources: <tt>apt-get install kernel-tree-2.6.11</tt> (or the version of your choice)
</li><li>copy the exisiting config file <i>kernel/config-2.6.11</i> as <i>.config</i> into your kernel source directory
</li><li>build the debian kernel package <tt>make-kpkg --revision=1.dfs --rootcmd=fakeroot kernel_image</tt>
</li><li>change the kernel in the <i>unpackdebs</i> setting in <ahref="/trac/cryptobox/browser/trunk/etc-defaults.d/dfs-cbox.conf">dfs-cbox.conf</a> (see <ahref="CryptoBoxDevCustomBuild.html">CryptoBoxDevCustomBuild</a> for details)
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See <atitle=""href="/trac/cryptobox/browser/trunk/hints/kernel-build.txt">source:trunk/hints/kernel-build.txt</a> for more details.
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<h2id="qemu">qemu</h2>
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<aclass="ext-link"title="http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/"href="http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/">Qemu</a> is a portable system emulator. It is a convenient tool to ease the development workflow, as you do not need to burn LiveCDs for testing.
We tried some other LiveCDs before we decided to use <aclass="ext-link"title="http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?searchon=names&subword=0&version=all&release=all&keywords=dfsbuild"href="http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?searchon=names&subword=0&version=all&release=all&keywords=dfsbuild">dfsbuild</a>. The following pages describe their advantages and disadvantages as the base system for the <ahref="CryptoBox.html">CryptoBox</a>:
<ahref="https://systemausfall.org/prj/cryptobox"title="Projekt-Seite">CryptoBox-Home</a> Die CryptoBox ist ein Projekt von <ahref="https://systemausfall.org/senselab"title="systemausfall.org">sense.lab</a>