live and install in one CD?
Marco Amadori wrote:
> Alle 15:41, luned? 8 gennaio 2007, Steve McIntyre ha scritto:
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>>There are several possible ways to do this now; the easiest may be to
>>use the hooks in the latest debian-cd version in svn to add files to
>>the temporary disc trees at various points. I wouldn't recommend
>>trying to re-implement the netinst build yourself, tbh - it's quite
>>complex already..
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> Good point, Attilio Fiandrotti told me that g-i can be compiled to run on X
> (gtk instead of gtk-directfb), it will be interesting to see how to include
> that in our live system builds, then we could "clone" ubiquity results via
> the X g-i and a package preseed took from <media>/casper/filesystem.manifest
> having the goodies of both worlds without having a different installer (and
> different features and bug support for the Q.A. team).
Indeed, one can easily compile and run cdebconf's GTK frontend under
gtk/x11, harder is running the d-i in a chroot environment form a live
Debian system.
I did some tests some months ago to see if that's possible or not and
could not complete the installation, which failed at some point after
language selection :(
regards
Attilio
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