On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 12:29:15 +0000 "luke.leighton" <luke.leighton@gmail.com> wrote: This is covered on the wiki under the multistrap section because that's the usual way these things are installed. Debian Installer isn't the typical use case. http://wiki.debian.org/Multistrap#Steps_for_Squeeze_and_later export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive DEBCONF_NONINTERACTIVE_SEEN=true export LC_ALL=C LANGUAGE=C LANG=C /var/lib/dpkg/info/dash.preinst install dpkg --configure -a > is there anything that i can do which will allow debian-installer > preseeding to work... without having to resort to debian/stable > installs [followed by an apt-get dist-upgrade]? You'd have to reinvent what I once implemented but found too problematic to support - a bespoke package which does this in it's preinst and then gets a higher priority than dash and then get that into the installer image. At one stage, there was a d-i command to run arbitrary calls (like wget foo.deb) in a preseed but I don't think that exists any longer. > btw i've installed the ssh thing, which allowed me to get in: by doing > "mkdir -p /usr/share/man/man1" followed by "touch > /usr/share/man/man1/sh.1.gz" seems to get one stage further. but.. > the next stage is: there's no kernel! :) methinks i am going to be There are very few kernels in Emdebian Grip. Kernel packages are generally too fat for embedded use, aren't built for targets which will use Emdebian Grip and/or just need customised builds anyway. Kernel packages also contain very little content which can be removed, so converting a kernel package to Grip does not change it's size and size is the principle problem. Generally, use debootstrap or multistrap with a custom method of getting the kernel into place. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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