debian-installer demo system, take 2
Here is another debian-installer demo system. It still needs a real
debian system and doesn't chroot, nor does it even use cdebconf although
it probably could. But it is rather more impressive than the last one:
joey@gumdrop:~/tmp/demo>du -s
73k .
[ Well that's not too bad. Of course it lacks the big 4: kernel, libc,
busybox, cdebconf. BTW, it compresses down to 19k.. ]
joey@gumdrop:~/tmp/demo>find
.
./var
./var/lib
./var/lib/dpkg
./var/lib/dpkg/info
./var/lib/dpkg/info/udpkg.list
./var/lib/dpkg/info/main-menu.list
./var/lib/dpkg/info/main-menu.postrm
./var/lib/dpkg/info/main-menu.templates
./var/lib/dpkg/info/wget-retriever.list
./var/lib/dpkg/info/choose-mirror.list
./var/lib/dpkg/info/choose-mirror.postrm
./var/lib/dpkg/info/choose-mirror.postinst
./var/lib/dpkg/info/anna.list
./var/lib/dpkg/info/anna.postrm
./var/lib/dpkg/info/anna.templates
./var/lib/dpkg/info/anna.postinst
./var/lib/dpkg/info/snddetect.list
./var/lib/dpkg/info/snddetect.md5sums
./var/lib/dpkg/info/ethdetect.list
./var/lib/dpkg/info/ethdetect.md5sums
./var/lib/dpkg/info/choose-mirror.templates
./var/lib/dpkg/status
./var/cache
./var/cache/anna
./usr
./usr/bin
./usr/bin/udpkg
./usr/bin/anna
./usr/bin/choose-mirror
./usr/bin/main-menu
./usr/bin/dpkg-reconfigure
./usr/lib
./usr/lib/debian-installer
./usr/lib/debian-installer/retriever
./usr/lib/debian-installer/retriever/wget-retriever
./Debconf
./Debconf/Config.pm
[ That's all there is in the demo system.. ]
joey@gumdrop:~/tmp/demo>PERL5LIB='.' debconf-loadtemplate \
var/lib/dpkg/info/*.templates
joey@gumdrop:~/tmp/demo>PERL5LIB='.' DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text \
/usr/share/debconf/frontend usr/bin/main-menu
[ The main-menu is not displayed at this point because there is only one item
on it, anna. ]
Choose mirror
-------------
The goal is to find a mirror that is close to you on the network -- be aware
that near countries, or even your own, may not be the best choice.
a. Australia 2. France 8. Norway
o. Austria g. Germany p. Poland
b. Belgium 3. Greece 9. Portugal
q. Brazil h. Hong Kong r. Russia
v. Britain (UK) 4. Hungary s. Slovakia
w. Bulgaria i. Indonesia 10. Slovenia
c. Canada 5. Ireland 11. South Africa
x. China 6. Italy 12. Spain
y. Costa Rica j. Japan 13. Sweden
z. Croatia k. Korea (South) 14. Switzerland
1. Czech Republic l. Latvia t. Taiwan
d. Denmark m. Mexico 15. Turkey
e. Estonia n. Netherlands u. United States
f. Finland 7. New Zealand 16. enter information manually
Use a mirror from what country? u
Select the mirror Debian will be downloaded from. You should select a mirror
that is close to you on the net.
h. http.us.debian.org s. sunsite.unc.edu
f. ftp.eecs.umich.edu k. ftp.cerias.purdue.edu
l. llug.sep.bnl.gov o. debian.fifi.org
a. ftp.debian.org p. mirrors.rcn.net
b. ftp-mirror.internap.com q. debian.gnaps.com
d. debian.uchicago.edu r. ftp.keystealth.org
c. ftp.us.debian.org t. debian.bilow.com
e. debian.tod.net n. natasha.stmarytx.edu
g. lyre.mit.edu u. ftp.digex.net
m. mirrors.xmission.com v. debian.lrlug.org
i. download.sourceforge.net w. ftp.tux.org
j. ftp.kernel.org
Choose the Debian mirror to use: h
If you need to use a http proxy to access the outside world, enter the proxy
information here. Otherwise, leave this blank.
When entering proxy information, use the standard form of
"http://[[user][:pass]@]host[:port]/";
Enter http proxy information, or leave blank for none:
[ It doesn't really matter what mirrors you tell it to use; it is hardcoded
for now to use the udeb repository at
http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/debian-installer/udebs/ regardless. ]
[ At this point it pauses for a while. It is actually downloading the Packages
file, then all the available udebs, and unpacking them all. ]
Here is the main menu of the Debian installer.
a. autodetection of ethernet cards f. Finish setting up the Debian installer
Choose the next step: a
[ As you can see, with more debs downloaded, more stuff is appearing on the
menu. Ok, it's a little silly to set up our ethernet card after downloading
stuff from the net, and that item won't work anyway, but you get the idea. ]
<ctrl-c>
joey@gumdrop:~/tmp/demo>find usr/bin
usr/bin
usr/bin/udpkg
usr/bin/anna
usr/bin/choose-mirror
usr/bin/main-menu
usr/bin/dpkg-reconfigure
usr/bin/memdetect
usr/bin/mdmdetect
usr/bin/ethdetect
usr/bin/diskdetect
usr/bin/cpudetect
usr/bin/cddetect
[ Some of the new files it installed. ]
The demo system is available at
http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/debian-installer/demo2.tar.gz
--
see shy jo
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