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Re: How to build a cdrom debian-installer with preseed.cfg



2010/12/23 Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>:
> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 12:11:19AM +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>> No, but this is the most general way.  The other is using multiple
>> initrds, if your boot method supports it.  The Syslinux family does, you
>> can supply multiple files separated by commas.  Probably you could also
>> emulate this by concatenating initrd images with appropriate padding,
>> but I never tried this myself.
>
> There is no padding. Just concatenating the gzip compressed cpio files
> works.

Do you mean something as ...

gunzip initrd.gz ; echo "preseed.cfg" | cpio -oAO initrd -H newc ; gzip initrd

?

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