Re: preseed bare-bones install

[mike@opendns.com]

Thanks for your help, Joey.

There's one other issue I'm trying to work around somehow with the
preseeded install.  I'm using base-config/late_command to wget another
kernel, and then installing it.  The final step is of course, to reboot
into the new kernel.  But rebooting with late_command reboots back into
mid-installation.

I read a little about how people have tried to work around this... such as
running background scripts with "sleep 100; reboot" but it sounds like
that base-config won't finish up with something running in the background.
 Any ideas on how I could reboot automatically in that new kernel?  I
don't know what base-config does after late_command, but if it's just
moving inittabs around, perhaps that could be done with late_command and
then rebooted.

Cheers,

Mike


> mike@opendns.com wrote:
>> With the help of http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstallerPreseed and the
>> sarge 3.1r1 netinst prepackaged iso, I have a working preseeded network
>> install of debian going, no external input necessary by operator save
>> the
>> power button.  However, I'm trying to slim down the install as much as
>> possible.  In my preseed file, I have the line
>>
>> tasksel tasksel/first multiselect ""
>>
>> But it seems many things I don't need/use are still getting installed -
>> like python, hotplug, etc...  How can I preseed the install so that I
>> can
>> avoid these packages?
>
> All standard priority packages are always installed by tasksel in sarge,
> you cannot change that. Also, hotplug is always installed since it can
> be necessary for proper hardware detection. In etch, tasksel does allow
> you to not install the stndard system so your preseeding of it will
> result in less being installed there.
>
> --
> see shy jo
>