Re: Preseeding and options - default or profile.preseed?

[vagrant@freegeek.org]

On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 11:13:26PM -0300, Ivan Paganini wrote:
> Sorry to be so insistent, but I forgot some of my doubts in the last email...
> 1) The keyboard is still a bit shady for me. I am using
> 
> console-data console-data/keymap/qwerty/layout select US american
> console-data console-data/keymap/family select qwerty
>  on the default.preseed package, but dont know if it is correct.

i don't think you need to set the keyboard anymore- i think
debian-installer should guess this from locale settings, unless it
guesses incorrectly.

also, i'm not sure if these are the right debconf questions anymore-
they may be leftovers from sarge.

> 2) I want also to include some files (scripts) in the image, and execute this
> scripts at the end of installation. How can I insert this files on the iso?

profiles/*.postinst will get copied to the installed system and run
during the "finish-install" phase of the install process.
 
> 3) Does anybody have any experience with using simple-cdd and splash and boot
> screens? I think that if this works, would be a nice thing to do... ;-)

see SPLASHPNG in simple-cdd.conf to set the boot splash, i'm not sure
about other parts of the install.
 
> 4) The localization part is almost working, I am just trying to set everything
> right. The problem is with the packages... all the packages get inside the CD
> image, but there are not installed - the section Selecting and Installing
> packages just fails. The default.packages includes the packages on the distro,
> but does not install then. 

please look in /var/log/installer/syslog to see if there are error
messages regarding the packages you wanted to install. noteably, you
should not include linux-image* packages in profiles/*.packages

live well,
  vagrant

p.s. please just write to the debian-custom list, not to me directly.