On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 12:16:39AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
>
> At the moment, both kbd-chooser, lilo-installer and grub-installer
> need to know if the installation is using a serial console. In
> addition, there is code to detect this in rootskel
> (/lib/debian-installer.d/S30term-linux) and set TERM_TYPE=serial in
> this case. To avoid duplicate code, I suggest using the same debconf
> template to store the required information, and that we add these
> three templates to rootskel:
>
> Template: debian-installer/console/serial
> Type: boolean
> Default: false
> Default[s390]: true
> Description: Is the install using serial line console?
> This is used in addition to environment variable TERM_TYPE=serial.
see below for more information
>
> Template: debian-installer/console/serial/port
> Type: string
> Default: ttyS0
> Description: Device name (in /dev/) of serial console device
>
> Template: debian-installer/console/serial/speed
> Type: string
> Default: 9600
> Description: Speed of serial console?
Template: debian-installer/console/serial/character
Type: string
Default: 8N1
Description: Number of databits, parity and stopbits for the serial console.
>
> There is code in lilo-installer.postinst to detect the current values
> from /proc/cmdline. I suggest this code is moved to rootskel as well.
>
> Any comments? Is these three variables enough?
Please design the code for the test on console type
to support also telnet and ssh.
Template: debian-installer/console/type
Type: string
Default: framebuffer
Default[s390]: serial
Description: What type of console will be used during installation
This is used to set the environment variable CONSOLE_TYPE
Usual it is 'framebuffer' with the video hardware and keyboard,
but you can use 'serial' for systems without console hardware.
To avoid pluging of serial cables, use 'telnet' or 'ssh'.
>
>
> I want to make common code out of this, instead of copying the code
> from lilo-installer into grub-installer. If the variables are
> available, it will be easier to add serial console support in grub.
This E-mail is a plee to make initrd with sshd
( http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2003/debian-boot-200311/msg00652.html )
possible. Having hooks like this will make it possible to use
the Debian Installer for installations of renderfarms, clusters
and other large quatity installs.
Geert Stappers
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