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Re: Suggested: New installation option



The final clue I have had:
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch04s07.html

Can this be true for partial answer sets or must it be complete; that is to
say the installation is either entirely automatic, or entirely manual?

Sam

"Samuel Liddicott" <sam@liddicott.com> wrote in message
[🔎] c6bbn7$b79$1@sea.gmane.org">news:[🔎] c6bbn7$b79$1@sea.gmane.org...
> Once the libc-udeb has been installed, tinyshell will run and stay loaded.
> So I dumped the libc-2.3.2.so into the init ramdisk along with tshd, the
> tinyshell demon
>
> These are the essential stages before tinyshell can run and the
installation
> be finished by hand remotely:
>
> *) Select language (e.g. en_GB)
> *) Select keyboard (e.g. British English)
> 1) hardware detected and modules loaded
> 2) network brought up
> *) select hostname
> *) select mirror country
> *) select mirror site
> *) set http proxy
> *) select debian version (stable, testing etc)
> 3) udebs are fetched including libc-udeb
>
> I'm still trying to work out what it is in the udebs that tinyshell needs,
> but who knows what I should be doing to get 1,2,3 done as soon as
possible?
> Is it safe to include udebs in the root disk or is that going to clash
when
> the udebs are fetched?
>
> Sam
>
>
> "Samuel Liddicott" <sam@liddicott.com> wrote in message
> [🔎] c6avj9$6fv$1@sea.gmane.org">news:[🔎] c6avj9$6fv$1@sea.gmane.org...
> > I've spend the last 2 days trying to manage a remote network
installation
> of
> > debian bf24
> >
> > Thankfully Ben Armstrong put me on to this installer.
> >
> > I'm hoping to get the installer to proceed to bring the network up
without
> > any interaction:
> >
> > I presume kernel boot strings of the form:
> >   debian-installer/framebuffer=false
> >
> > can cause the installer to skip straigh to bring the network up.
> >
> > Then perhaps something like tinyshell:
> >   http://www.cr0.net:8040/code/network/
> >
> > could be running to allow remote login from which the rest of the debian
> > installer could be run.
> >
> > Am I mad? Is this mostly already done? Or what work do I need to do?
> >
> > Sam
> >
> >
> >
> >
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