Re: Graphical installer

[Tollef Fog Heen <tollef@add.no>]

* Michael Cardenas 

| Great! I'm currently working on making a cd with the gtk front end for
| testing purposes. I plan on making udebs for gtkfb and its
| dependencies, although I'm not sure why Tolleff wants this. 

Because all the parts of d-i are to be udebs.  Even the parts which
are just put onto the boot media.

| Does debian-cd know about udebs? If we just need gtkfb on the live
| filesystem on the cd, why do we need udebs for them? Is that so that
| floppy installs can download the gtkfb udeb and use the gtk frontend?
| That seems pretty wild to me. 

It knows about them, yes.  There isn't a live fs on the cd, there is a
floppy image there which contains an initrd which is copied onto a
ramfs.

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Tollef Fog Heen                                                        ,''`.
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