Re: Using /cdrom/.disk/udeb_(in|ex)clude to load custom udebs instead of d-i's?
On 16:51 Mon 27 Feb , Michael S. Peek wrote:
> I'm playing with the latest debian-testing-i386-businesscard.iso. One of
> the things I want to do is automate the network configuration process in an
> environment where DHCP is not an option. Actually, what I want is for the
> debian installer to look up the network settings according to the hardware
> addresses it finds. So what I've done is I've created my own netcfg udeb
> package, which I've named tiem.netcfg, that provides configured-network.
> On the iso image, I've created a .disk/ directory and placed within the
> file udeb_exclude, which contains the single line:
>
> netcfg
>
> And the file udeb_include, which contains the single line:
>
> tiem.netcfg
>
> If I understand available-hooks.txt right, this should tell the debian
> installer to load my tiem.netcfg udeb instead of the debian installer's
> netcfg, but it doesn't. It loads netcfg anyway.
>
> As the installer runs and d-i's netconfig sits there waiting for me to type
> in an address I can switch to another terminal and load my udebs by hand
> using udpkg, and my udebs work, they're just not being loaded *instead of*
> the default udeb.
Hi,
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Xavier Oswald
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