Re: Building my own installer..
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 10:32:10AM -0800, Jason Fesler wrote:
> For reasons more than the shear joy of writing one :-) I'm working on
> something that will be jumpstart-like for the environment I work in.
> I've looked at FAI; however, I don't want to go with it at this time.
> And it appears that while work is being made for debian to do a reasonable
> unattended installer, it looks like that might be a ways off :-).
>
> I've got the netbooting and partitioning down; grepping the CVS repository
> for "dbootstrap" (which I found called from init, on root.bin for potato)
> for clues, I kinda fell short. Much of it I'm sure is unfamiliarity.
>
> What I could use at this point is a pointer as to what gets dumped
> on the disk after I partition the drive.
>
> Adam Di Carlo >
> |Specify whether you mean the files placed on the target system for
> |'install kernel and drivers' step or the 'install base' step.
>
> In this case, both. I was rooting around the source, looking for
> something that would go grabbing a packing list of sorts, but failed to
> find anything like that. FWIW, this is initially for potato;
> I'm personally aiming to have it be flexible enough for whatever our needs
> evolve to.
>
> Can anyone who's frobbed the install stuff the hard way give me any
> pointers?
dbootstrap is what does the kernel install, it's in the utilities
folder.
debootstrap is what does the base install, it is its own debian package.
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| debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> |
| Chris Tillman tillman@azstarnet.com |
| May the Source be with you |
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