A way to change which packages to use during installation
As some of you might know, I work on the Skolelinux project. In this
project, we use debian-installer as the installer for a Woody based
CD. On this CD, we want the installation to be automatic, and only
ask very few questions to the user. At the moment, we ask about
language, installation profile (which packages to install), and if it
is OK to erase all hard drives. To get automatic installation, we use
DEBCONF_PRIORITY=high as a kernel parameter. This works just fine.
We want to use grub as the default boot loader. This has been a
problem for us, as we want to have lilo available on the CD, but not
use it by default. This was a problem, as lilo-installer appear
before grub-installer on the main menu. Last night, I came up with an
idea on how to change this.
I made a new udeb with menu entry 5, depending on the packages we want
to use during installation. It depends on skolelinux-config-udeb
(which depends on languagechooser and profilechooser), autopartkit,
grub-installer and prebaseconfig. Installing this package in d-i made
grub and lilo installer change place on the menu, and we finally got
the installation we wants. :)
I thought you should all know about this nice way to reorganize the
main menu. :)
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