There are several issues that make the netinst CDs suck (and I don't mean the text frontend). Two that I'm interested in are 1. Pulling in ethdetect, netcfg and net-retriever automatically in anna (whether this should be done automatically in all cases is up for debate... Maybe it's a good idea to configure the network as soon as possible and don't leave that to base-config?) 2. Menu item ordering. In my opinion, everything that's installed by anna should damn well end up below anna in the menu, or things will be too confusing. I don't know how to fix 2, but one idea I had for fixing 1 was to have overrides in the netinst CD building, so ethdetect and friends would be normally optional, but when put on a netinst CD, they'd be overridden to standard. buxy, however, didn't really like this and suggested a file on the CD-ROM with a list of packages to be installed automatically. I've been toying with that idea too, I just wonder what package would be responsible for finding the file under /cdrom/... and let anna know about it. Comments? /Martin -- Martin Sjögren sjogren@debian.org -- marvin@dum.chalmers.se GPG key: http://www.mdstud.chalmers.se/~md9ms/gpg.html let hello = "hello" : hello in putStr (unlines hello)
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