On 10/21/2016 2:24 PM, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 09:11:07PM +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 09:21:17AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: [...]Relevant lines of preseed.cfg are ### Clock and time zone setup #d-i clock-setup/utc boolean false d-i clock-setup/utc boolean true d-i time/zone string US/Central d-i clock-setup/ntp boolean falseTo me this looks reasonable. At least the installer should have enough info to get by. Note that I'm not very fluent on the details, so I might be missing something.Here are the relevant pages [1] [2].
[1] & [2] bother me a little as they are labeled "(Obsolete Documentation)"
They should imply possible search terms for additional research.My current motto - "If retirement isn't for learning, what use is it?" ;/
[3] also looks applicable. Will read all 3 after good night's sleep. Got a couple of other problems I should address today ;/
In a nutshell, it *should* work. But you lose the automatic DST change -- the OS expects then the HW clock to be "right" wrt local time. But -- who knows? Perhaps the hwclock is read *before* the d-i settings can be accounted for; perhaps the time will be right after installation *and* reboot? [1] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/system-administrator/ch-sysadmin-time.html [2] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/system-administrator/ch-sysadmin-time.html#s-multiboot-with
[3] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-handbook/sect.config-misc.en.html
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