[dropping persons from recipients, and adding bug#311188 ] Quoting Steven Chamberlain (2014-08-28 14:05:22) > On 28/08/14 00:53, Holger Levsen wrote: >> On Mittwoch, 27. August 2014, Mike Gabriel wrote: >>> I guess this only makes sense if a Debian Edu machine (standalone) >>> can be installed via Debian's normal D-I, right? >> >> why? and why limit this to stabalone? > > Do the regular Debian Edu installers do some special configuration > before the tasksel stage? Might this be too late in the installer to > correctly install at least some of the machine types? The package debian-edu-install ships /etc/init.d/xdebian-edu-firstboot, registers debconf question debian-edu-install/run-firstboot, and checks for magic file /etc/debian-edu/xdebian-edu-firstboot.. The package debian.edu-config ships a range of CFEngine scripts and /usr/share/debian-edu-config/tools/run-at-firstboot. Above mechanisms stay dormant, however, unless triggered correctly - i.e. when "installed on a normal system, nothing (bad) happens"[1]. One answer to your question could therefore be a simple "no". [1] https://bugs.debian.org/bug=311188#217 ...another more descriptive, I believe, answer could be "You don't really have a Debian Edu system when installing it on a Debian system". I believe that second elaborated view is the reason for Mike's question. To me it is far from "perfectly sense" to offer "Debian Edu" in debian-installer to get some "educational software" - I would expect to get a Debian Edu system. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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