Re: Hacking on d-i

[John Summerfield <debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au>]

Colin Watson wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 09:01:36PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
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> > Andrew Pollock wrote:
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> > > What you need to do is checkout a copy of the d-i subversion repository.
> > >
> > > See http://www.nl.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/svn
> > >      
> > Well I don't have subversion, but I saw this link:
> >    
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> You can get hold of Subversion packages for woody here:
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>  http://people.debian.org/~adconrad/
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>  
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> > I have a machine on ADSL I can hack on, but it runs woody and must stay 
> > on woody.
> >    
>
> Use an unstable chroot, if you can.
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>  
It's a bit short of disk, and it hangs when I try to use the 120 Gbyte 
WD drive I put in it:-((

The most serious problem I want to circumvent is the default internet 
site it installs from. I _can_ get round that one with a transparent 
proxy firewall rule and configuring Apache as a proxy: I did that once 
before (for RHL) and it worked a treat.

I was hoping d-i waa a bit easier to configure than it seems.



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Cheers
John

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