Successful Installation with pre-rc2
Hi everybody,
I just tested pre-rc2. Works really great, the one bug I ran into
(localization-config) is already fixed.
then I tested the preseeding feature. This is a really fantastic
feature!
There is just a small whishlist:
With preseeding it would be very easy to set up a customized installer
for our university. But it didn't work. My idea was the following:
1. building my own miniiso from netboot
2. setting the three country/keyboard settings in syslinux.cfg (append)
as mentioned in Joeys example.
3. pointing preseed/url to a file on the miniiso.
First glitch: I could not seed country/keyboard for germany. the
append-line exceeded 256 chars and was cut :-(
then I tried some things but I found no way to set these three questions
to german.
it is also not possible to put file-preseed and network-preseed into the
initrd since they provide the same files. file-preseed is removed if
network-preseed is installed.
It would be cool if it would work like this:
having three preseed packages which can coexist in the same initrd:
1. initrd-preseed: like file-preseed but does not depend on any
cdrom-detect or mount-floppy. but it only can read files which are on
the initrd. this would make it possible to preseed even before the
language-chooser.
2. file-preseed, like now
3. network-preseed, like now :-)
--
Jörg Friedrich
There are only 10 types of people:
Those who understand binary and those who don't.
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