Re: Help with D-I
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 07:55:09AM -1000, Daniel Andrade wrote:
> I'm trying to customize the instalation of a debian system and am
> using the debian-cd tool to create the custom cd....
>
> I'm trying to customize the D-I process (that one you choose the
> language, keyboard, perform hardware detect, do network configuration,
> etc etc)... so, i'll enumerate what i did...
>
> 0 - got the debian-installer .tar.gz (version 20050317 - compatible
> with the sarge distribution) and untargzipped it to a
> [debian-installer] directory...
>
> 1 - tried to create a [my-distro]-udeb package and created the
> [my-distro]_0.0.1_all.udeb package with dpkg-buildpackage... the only
> thing it was suppose to do was to display a welcome message to the
> user (I set the XB-Installer-Menu-Item to 9, so it was supposed to be
> displayed before any other thing and checked the templates file, it
> was all ok...)
Where exactly? in the postinst of your udeb? I'm not sure that this is
the right place for such messages, as the order of udebs "installation"
is not well-defined. Your udeb should generally add scripts in various
hook dirs in the installer.
>
> 2 - sent it to the [debian-installer]/build/localudebs and created the
> debian-installer with dpkg-buildpackage.... again, it was ok....
>
> 3 - sent the directory
> [debian-installer]/debian/tmp/installer-i386/current to
> [my-local-mirror]/dists/sarge/main/installer-i386/current/ (for
> debian-cd)
>
> 4 - configured debian-cd (conf.sh) to get the sarge distribution
> (editing the task/Debian_sarge to get the minimal set for a CD, that
> is, the last include was forcd1 file)...
>
> 5 - created the CD with build.sh... it created the CD... then I booted
> the CD and it didn't displayed the initial message (which it was
> supposed to display when I created the [my-distro]-udeb package)...
When exactly do you expect the welcome screen to be displayed?
udeb-s are only extracted after the CD is mounted by the initrd. It is
the job of the initrd to ask about the keyboard and language.
>
>
> So, what can it be? Isn't debian-cd getting this udeb I need?
> I want first to customize this D-I part... after it I want to
> customize the base-config and then the tasksel... I'm reading a
> portuguese documentation (Como criar uma Personalização Debian - CDD)
> wich did very well until this part of alter the base-config and the
> tasksel parts.... but first I wanted to solve the D-I problem....
>
> Really thanks for the attention!!!!!
>
> Daniel
>
>
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