Hi John,
On 2014-01-03 03:22, John G. Heim wrote:
I want to create a custom grml ISO that has a kernel patched for hardware speech synthesiers. [..]
The man page for grml-live recommends running it on a virtual machine running grml. That sounds like a good idea. I have a VMWare player virtual machine booted into grml from the latest 32-bit iso file. But I am uncertain as to what to do next. Should I use grml2usb or grml-debbootstrap or something else?
What's the best way to set up a virtual machine to run grml?
According to the grml-live documentation[1] you can run grml-live in a plain Debian-Installation.
[1] http://grml.org/grml-live/#deploy-on-debian
So you CAN install Debian with grml-debootrap[2]
[2] http://grml.org/grml-debootstrap/
but you also can perform an installation by any means you're comfortable with.
After you have a running virtual machine you can install grml-live like it is described in [1].
HTH && HNY, - Darsha