Re: d-i vs openSUSE's ancient installer
On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 11:30:48PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Christian Perrier]
> > Still, that doesn't indeed prevent anybody to develop a specific
> > component that could be run *before* D-I, then preseed D-I variables
> > so that it later runs completely unattended.
>
> I believe I saw a comment making me believe the live CD installer in
> Ubuntu have something like this. Anyone know more?
Sort of; that was kind of the initial idea. But in practice it's an
independently-designed installer that uses d-i components as some of its
backends for as much commonality of implementation as it can manage, not
a straightforward frontend to d-i.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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