Re: Configuring a new system that shipped w/ Debian?
On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 15:12, Scott Henson wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 18:08, Grant Edwards wrote:
> >
> > I am planning on shipping Linux boxen with Debian preinstalled.
> >
> > When the customer unpacks the box and fires it up, what is the
> > best way to allow him to reconfigure the sorts of things that
> > one normally configures as part of an install:
> >
> > * Hostname
> > * IP addressing info
> > * Passwords
> > * User accounts
> > * SSH key generation
> > * ...
> >
> > Doing a dpkg --configure <pkgname> won't work because the
> > packages have already been configured.
> >
>
> /usr/sbin/base-config will get a bunch of this stuff.
>
> Other than that, you can use dpkg-reconfigure to take care of the rest.
> Debian on PCs would be really cool. Im looking for something this summer
> and wouldnt mind supporting a company doing something like that. Would
> you mind sending me some info off list. Thanks
You might also want to ask the debian-boot list for help. Also check
out the source of the debian install system. That would contain the
answer on how to configure all the stuff that was configured durring the
install process.
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