On 2020-04-21 04:49, jnqnfe@gmail.com wrote:
I have not played with the "live" type installer before, I've only ever used "cdrom". From what I can understand from the code and manual, if you choose "live" mode, a udeb (debian-installer package) 'live-installer' is bundled with the other d-i udeb packages in your image. With the live-installer udeb present, what then happens is that this automatically gets run as one of the install steps when running the installer.
That was my understanding too. And, in fact a 'live-installer_57_{i386,amd64}.udeb is located in the pool-udeb of the generated image.
However, you can setup a "preseed" file to disable it automatically running, with it therefore becoming an optional install step which you can choose whether or not to run during installation (expert mode if not also others gives you a list of stages you can manually trigger). If you choose to execute the live-installer stage then you get a "live" installation, if you choose to skip it then you get a normal installation. So no, live-build does not create two sets of alternate install menu entries. Look into this I can see that the man page is out of date and needs fixing. The path it specifies will not be used. I got the below correct paths from looking at the actual code. To use this feature, you should: 1) write "live-installer/enable=false" (without quotes) into either config/preseed/FILE.cfg or config/preseed/FILE.cfg.installer, (replacing FILE with whatever filename you want to use). 2) for iso|iso-hybrid|hdd images, you must use --debian-installer- preseedfile "preseed.cfg". wrt. that fixed filename for step #2, it must be exactly "preseed.cfg" trust me, I've determined that from reading the code, it refers to the filename of the file that actually ends up in your image, which d-i needs pointing to, and this file is created by live-build with the contents of all of your config preseed files copied into it. There are some bits of code as well as the manual that need updating to clear this up and make it more simple (which I'm adding to my todo list). For now you must specify exactly that as the filename for that option for those image types for it to work.
So, I followed your instructions and the final image ended up with a pressed.cfg in the 'install' folder. The contents of it been the single line "live-installer/enable=false" (without quotes). But when trying to install, been a 'normal' or 'expert' installation, I get the following warning:
[!!] Load debconf preconfiguration file
Failed to process the preconfiguration file
The installer failed to process the preconfiguration file from
file:///cdrom/install/preseed.cfg. The file may be corrupt.
After that I tried to put "d-i" in front of "live-installer/enable=false" in the 'config/preseed/FILE.cfg.installer' hoping that it was a syntax error, but got the same error again trying to install.
I tried to diagnose if it was a permission or a 'path' error, but did not arrive in any conclusion :-/
Do you have any clue on what may be happening? Or how could I diagnose this?
Thank you
On Mon, 2020-04-20 at 20:43 +0000, dbgr wrote:Hello I am using the live-build version 20191221 (the one in testing) on a debian stable/buster system to build an live image with and integrated debian installer (with the '--debian-installer live' flag/option). According to a note on the '12.1 Types of Debian Installer' section of the live manual ( https://live-team.pages.debian.net/live-manual/html/live-manual/customizing-installer.en.html#627 ): "to support both normal and live installer entries in the bootloader of the same live medium, you must disable live-installer by preseeding live-installer/enable=false". Could someone clarify this note? I should preseed 'live-installer/enable=false' to the installer using a file pointed with --debian-installer-preseedfile flag (or the default config/binary_debian-installe/preseed.cfg - according to the man page)? If that is the case should I preseed it as 'd-i live-installer/enable=false'? When doing so live-build will somehow configure two different entries in the bootloader automatically (one for the 'live installer' and one for the 'normal' one)? Thank you