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= Astronomix Developers Documentation (WORK IN PROGRESS) =

== Table of contents ==
 * [wiki:DevDocumentation#Introduction Introduction]
 * [wiki:DevDocumentation#ModulesStructure Modules Structure]


== Introduction ==

[http://www.astronomix.org Astronomix] is essentialy a [http://www.morphix.org Morphix] derivated.
This mean that all the work to build it is made using the [http://www.morphix.org Morphix] logic and many of the [http://www.morphix.org Morphix] scripts,
with some customization (like a specialized installer or some modification in the hardware detection scripts) and a complete remake of the modules, but with the same structure.
According to [http://www.morphix.org Morphix], modules mean that in the ISO there are some different filesystems with different task to do at different level, compressend in multiple compressed iso and reorganized with a structured tree in one single iso.
  
== Modules Structure ==

The modules structure in [http://www.astronomix.org Astronomix] is done in the same manner of [http://www.morphix.org Morphix], if you loop mount the "full" iso you will see something like this:

{{{
#!rst

/ ---------------------> root of the iso image, with some README and needed files like autorun.inf and so on
|->boot/
|      |-> miniroot.gz -----------> gzipped ext2 file system with a minimal busybox filesystem, for the bootstrap of the livecd
|      |-> vmlinuz  --------------> a kernel image
|      |-> grub/    --------------> directory with grub (a boot loader) related files
|
|->base/
|      |-> AstronoMix ------------> a cloop compressed iso with a minimal complete install of Debian sid with some morphix scripts
|      |-> boot.cat 
|
|->copy/
|      |->morphix/
|                |-> background.png --> the graphic file used for splash boot
|
|->deb/ 
|
|->exec/
|
|->images/
|
|->mainmod/
|         |-> astronomix-big.mod --> a cloop compressed iso with the "big" version of the astronomix file system
|         |-> astronomix-tiny.mod --> a cloop compressed iso with the "tiny" version of the astronomix file system
|
|->minimod/
          |-> astronomix-mini-big.mod --> a morphix mini-module with customization for the "big" main module
          |-> astronomix-mini-tiny.mod --> a morphix mini-module with customization for the "tiny" main module
}}}