On Tuesday 29 July 2008 22:56, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 07:07:12PM +0000, Ryan Braun [ADS] wrote: > > On Tuesday 29 July 2008 17:52, Ryan Braun [ADS] wrote: > > > I have a dialog driven configuration script I want to use to configure > > > several aspects of the install. The preseed works for the majority of > > > the install, all the apps get installed, then it doesn't seem to want > > > to run the dialog script. > > > > I finally got some feedback from the script, the error I'm getting is > > > > Error opening terminal: bterm > > You need to use debconf if you want to do user interactions inside > the debian-installer. Other means would just be plain hacks. > > Have a look at debian-installer scripts and to the debconf-devel(7) > man page for more details on how to use debconf.
I think for this project, I'll end up putting together a nice menu system with isolinux configs, passing the hostname="whoever" kernel argument. Then I'll just have my config script pull the /target/etc/hostname value to figure out how to setup the workstations. Thanks for the feedback! Ryan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
