mike@opendns.com wrote: > Good morning debian booters, > > With the help of http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstallerPreseed and the > sarge 3.1r1 netinst prepackaged iso, I have a working preseeded network > install of debian going, no external input necessary by operator save the > power button. However, I'm trying to slim down the install as much as > possible. In my preseed file, I have the line > > tasksel tasksel/first multiselect "" > > But it seems many things I don't need/use are still getting installed - > like python, hotplug, etc... How can I preseed the install so that I can > avoid these packages? > > Thanks much, take it easy. > > Mike Not sure if this is what you're asking, but you can get rid of some stuff (i.e. the packages listed here: http://hands.com/d-i/dsd/base_exclude) by installing my bootstrapwrap udeb into the running debian-installer instance before it gets to the debootstrap step: http://hands.com/d-i/udebs/bootstrapwrap_0.2_all.udeb which can be installed in the preseed/early_command. The way I do that is to grab a script in the early_command, as you can see in here: http://hands.com/d-i/dsd/common.cfg which grabs and runs this script: http://hands.com/d-i/dsd/early_script which, among other things grabs and installs bootstrapwrap & the base_exclude file (and a base_include file if it exists) You can always just put the relevant bits straight into your preseed/early_command, rather than doing this recursive downloading of scripts approach, if you prefer. Hope that helps. Cheers, Phil.
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