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Re: preseed bare-bones install



Quoting mike@opendns.com (mike@opendns.com):
> Thanks for your help, Joey.
> 
> There's one other issue I'm trying to work around somehow with the
> preseeded install.  I'm using base-config/late_command to wget another
> kernel, and then installing it.  The final step is of course, to reboot
> into the new kernel.  But rebooting with late_command reboots back into
> mid-installation.
> 
> I read a little about how people have tried to work around this... such as
> running background scripts with "sleep 100; reboot" but it sounds like
> that base-config won't finish up with something running in the background.


You can send the late command in the backgroung by appending an
ampersand (&) to it.




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