[debian-knoppix] Suggestion: make knoppix-autoconfig fully configurable via files

[wmglo@dent.med.uni-muenchen.de]

Hi,

/etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfig seems to be _almost_ but not completely
suitable for driving a HD-installed OS, that is, by only changing
configuration files (I think the configuration "by kernel command
line" is not really suitable for HD-installation/custom kernels).

I'm not sure whether this is intentional -- if this file is replaced
during any sort of "recommended" HD-install of Knoppix, please tell me
with what file(s)..

With the appended patch, for a HD-install all one has to do is copy
/KNOPPIX to the target root, create /etc/fstab and then append a few
lines to /etc/default/rcS, like:

# for knoppix-autoconfig
BOOT_utc=yes
BOOT_nodhcp=yes
BOOT_nomkxf86config=yes
BOOT_norebuildfstab=yes

Regards,
Wolfram.

--- knoppix-autoconfig.orig	Mon Jan  5 07:09:50 2004
+++ knoppix-autoconfig	Tue Feb 17 15:40:18 2004
@@ -11,6 +12,9 @@
 # Ignore these signals: INT, TERM, SEGV
 trap "" 2 3 11
 
+# load boot parameters from disk
+. /etc/default/rcS
+
 # ANSI COLORS
 CRE="
"
 NORMAL=""
@@ -54,6 +58,8 @@
 
 # Check boot commandline for specified option
 checkbootparam(){
+boot_par_="BOOT_$1"
+[ x${!boot_par_} = xyes ] && return 0
 stringinstring " $1" "$CMDLINE"
 return "$?"
 }
@@ -411,7 +417,7 @@
 [ -e /KNOPPIX/bin/ash ] || INSTALLED="yes"
 
 # Set hostname
-hostname Knoppix
+hostname "$(cat /etc/hostname)"
 
 # Set clock (Local time is more often used than GMT, so it is default)
 UTC=""
@@ -447,7 +453,10 @@
 
 KTZ="$(getbootparam tz 2>/dev/null)"
 [ -f "/usr/share/zoneinfo/$KTZ" ] && TZ="$KTZ"
-cp "/usr/share/zoneinfo/$TZ" /etc/localtime
+if ! cmp "/usr/share/zoneinfo/$TZ" /etc/localtime; then
+  rm -f /etc/localtime
+  ln -s "/usr/share/zoneinfo/$TZ" /etc/localtime
+fi
 
 # Delete obsolete links and files before starting autoconfig
 if ! checkbootparam "nohwsetup"; then
@@ -794,6 +803,7 @@
 #done
 #fi
 
+if ! checkbootparam norebuildfstab; then
 # Start creating /etc/fstab with HD partitions and USB SCSI devices now
 echo -n "${BLUE}Scanning for Harddisk partitions and creating ${YELLOW}/etc/fstab${BLUE}... "
 rebuildfstab -r -u knoppix -g knoppix >/dev/null 2>&1
@@ -802,6 +812,7 @@
 sleep 8
 fi
 echo "${GREEN}Done.${NORMAL}"
+fi
 
 if [ -n "$partitions" ]; then
  while read p m f relax; do

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