A collection of command-line tools for managing MiniOS live systems and module bundles.
MiniOS Tools provides utilities for creating, managing, and customizing MiniOS live systems. These tools allow you to build custom ISO images, manage compressed filesystem bundles (.sb modules), and maintain live system configurations.
- sb2iso - Generate MiniOS ISO images with custom modules and localized menus
- apt2sb - Install packages from repositories and package them into modules
- script2sb - Package modules from changes made by installation scripts
- chroot2sb - Package modules using chroot environment
- sb - Activate, deactivate, and manage MiniOS bundles
- dir2sb - Convert directories to compressed .sb modules
- sb2dir - Extract .sb modules to directories
- rmsbdir - Remove module directories created by sb2dir
- savechanges - Save runtime changes to compressed bundles
These tools are typically included with MiniOS distributions. For manual installation:
make installEach tool includes built-in help:
sb2iso --help
apt2sb --help
# etc.For detailed documentation, see the individual manual pages in the doc/ directory.
The tools support multiple languages with full localization:
- English (en_US)
- Russian (ru_RU)
- German (de_DE)
- Spanish (es_ES)
- Italian (it_IT)
- Indonesian (id_ID)
- Portuguese Brazil (pt_BR)
- Portuguese Portugal (pt_PT)
- French (fr_FR)
- Linux system with squashfs-tools
- Root privileges for most operations
- AUFS/OverlayFS support for some bundle operations
Distributed under the same license as MiniOS Linux.
For issues and questions, visit: https://github.com/minios-linux/minios-live