Re: d-i Customization
Craig Block <chblockdb@yahoo.com> writes:
> Before d-i, Boot Floppies would just grab whatever image was in the directory
> tree and install it, no questions asked. It was only a matter of dropping-in
> your own image. Pretty simple. It would be a great help if d-i provided an
> option to do something similar. As it stands, d-i pidegeon holes you into
> using only what Debian makes available. And, if history is any indication,
> Debian tends to wallow behind on kernel releases.
You can use live-installer to make d-i to install a image as
boot-flippies was doing before d-i.
> When I say, "exclude," I mean, "do not install." I can force d-i to do that
> by removing entries from the status and Package files. Not a graceful
> solution but it seems to work without issue other than a few squawks in the
> syslog about missing packages.
Yes.
> I wanted to avoid building from source and customizing from that end, but I
> may have a go at it and see how that works out for me.
live-installer might be a solution if you want a "copy". It's not
integrated on d-i released on stable but shouldn't be hard to port it
to it.
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