Re: Xen with Debian installer
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 03:13:23PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.com.au> writes:
>
> > b) The domU systems should be indistinguishable from normal systems -
> > using D-I is one way to ensure this. It seems reasonable to expect
> > that any changes to the install process will happen in D-I before
> > being implemented elsewhere (e.g. is it possible that xen-create-image
> > may lag behind D-I on some things?)
>
> Both D-I and xen-create-image call debootstrap. There should be little
> difference. Most of the install process is implemented in the actual
> debs and those will be the same all the time.
Are you sure about that? Last time I played with debootstrap, I
noticed that d-i does _lots_ of configuration (e.g. localization,
autodetect, etc) that is simply not done by debootstrap. This is
why I am still with d-i ;-)
BTW: does xen-create-image also use udebs as d-i does?
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