Re: running a program with complex UI from debian-installer
nick black left as an exercise for the reader:
> I've actually got this solution working surprisingly well. Anyone interested
> in this fairly esoteric problem ought look at
> https://github.com/dankamongmen/SprezzOS/blob/master/d-i/packages/rootskel.diff
> and
> https://github.com/dankamongmen/SprezzOS/tree/master/d-i/packages/rootskel/src/sbin.
As it turns out, all this can be skipped if one uses openvt -s -w. Hack on!
(now trying to figure out why iconv(3) breaks on me in the installer,
causing much trouble when it comes time to spit out UTF16LE GPT partition
names. probably has to do with gconv files in /usr/lib. sigh, the eternal
struggle!)
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nick black http://www.sprezzatech.com -- unix and hpc consulting
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