Re: Summary from the d-i / debian-cd BoF at DC14
On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 08:51:15PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
>Hi Steve,
>
>On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 04:51:01PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> * Generating complete images (as opposed to installer images) brings
>> up other issues - d-i already asks a set of useful questions
>> (keymap, timezone, etc.) at installation time. For other types of
>> images, we'd need to add a first-boot customisation/configuration
>> tool to ask those questions. Preseeding could do it, but how do we
>> do this? Defer some of the installer steps until first boot, like
>> live-installer?
>
>One example of prior art that may be worth looking at is Ubuntu's
>oem-config, part of the 'ubiquity' source package:
>
> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/u/ubiquity/
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-installer/ubiquity/trunk
>
>This has both graphical and console front-ends for use in configuring a
>system at first boot of a preinstalled image.
ACK, thanks for the suggestion. As/when/if somebody finds time to work
on this that could be very helpful!
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