Re: Booth at FSCONS 2012
Hi!
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Luca Capello <luca@pca.it> wrote:
> Hi Per!
>
> Adding debian-boot@ for BabelBox information.
>
> On Mon, 05 Nov 2012 21:06:38 +0100, Per Andersson wrote:
>>> I have not finished yet to fix the squeeze version, but you should
>>> forget about it and use setup a wheezy BabelBox. I already have a
>>> working installation for the latter, so I can simply send you the
>>> tarball ;-)
>>
>> Can you send me the tarball?! :-D
>
> Good point, thank you for the reminder.
Installing wheezy on a laptop here. Actually on three but all are not going
to the conference. :-)
> The squeeze tarball is useless,
I didn't look at it but guessed so.
> simply clone the Git repository and
> follow the instructions on the wiki:
>
> <http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=d-i/babelbox.git;a=summary>
Nice!
> <http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/BabelBox>
Following that so far.
> The above works also OK on a KVM/libvirt installation: replace the three
> occurrences of sda in 00del_partition, babelbox-grub and cronscript.
Any reason I would want to do that?
> For wheezy, if you want to show GNOME 3 you need 3D, which means that
> you should probably also install one of the firmware-* packages. The
> following patch should be enough, tested on the Debian Events Box, but
> not yet on a VM (and I will polish it before committing...):
I'll try them out. Will it work with the graphics card on a thinkpad x61s do you
think?
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> diff --git a/preseed.cfg b/preseed.cfg
> index 2838d22..ac5a239 100644
> --- a/preseed.cfg
> +++ b/preseed.cfg
> @@ -82,8 +91,7 @@ d-i lilo-installer/skip bollean true
> tasksel tasksel/first multiselect
>
> ## instead install a quite minimal GNOME setup and desktop-base (for spacefun theme)
> -d-i pkgsel/include string gdm3, gnome-session, gnome-icon-teme, desktop-base,
> -xserver-xorg-core, xserver-xorg-input-evdev, xserver-xorg-video-vesa, xserver-xorg
> +d-i pkgsel/include string alsa-base, alsa-utils, gdm3, gnome-session, gnome-icon-teme, desktop-base, xserver-xorg-core, xserver-xorg-input-evdev, xserver-xorg-video-vesa, xserver-xorg-video-fbdev, xserver-xorg-video-all, xserver-xorg, plymouth
>
> # Don't install popcon
> popularity-contest popularity-contest/participate boolean false
> diff --git a/preseed_early b/preseed_early
> old mode 100755
> new mode 100644
> index efb2074..f7ad297
> --- a/preseed_early
> +++ b/preseed_early
> @@ -11,7 +11,4 @@ db_info babelbox/info || true
> mkdir -p /lib/partman/init.d
> cp /hd-media/srv/babelbox/00del_partition /lib/partman/init.d/
>
> -apt-install alsa-base || true
> -apt-install alsa-utils || true
> -
> exit 0
> diff --git a/preseed_late b/preseed_late
> old mode 100755
> new mode 100644
> index 708775c..7d9bffc
> --- a/preseed_late
> +++ b/preseed_late
> @@ -13,10 +13,20 @@ mount /dev/discs/disc0/part1 /hd-media -o remount,rw
>
> sed -i "s/^set default=.*$/set default=\"3\"/" /hd-media/boot/grub/grub.cfg
>
> +# Install extra packages, e.g. firmware needed for graphics cards
> +for I in $(find /hd-media/srv/babelbox/ -type f -name \*.deb -maxdepth 1 2>&1) ; do
> + cp -f "$I" /target/var/cache/apt/archives/
> + chroot /target dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/$(basename "$I")
> +done
> if [ -d /target/etc/gdm3 ] ; then
> # Enable automatic login (chroot because of bug in busybox sed)
> chroot /target sed -i "/^\[daemon\]/a\AutomaticLoginEnable = true\nAutomaticLogin = debian" /etc/gdm3/daemon.conf
> fi
> +if [ -x /target/usr/sbin/plymouth-set-default-theme ] ; then
> + # Set default plymouth theme
> + chroot /target plymouth-set-default-theme spacefun
> + chroot /target dpkg-reconfigure plymouth
> +fi
>
>
> exit 0
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Please report your experience :-)
Of course!
Best,
Per
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