On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 12:19 AM, Jérémy Bobbio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 02:00:04PM +0200, Per Andersson wrote: >> As a part of my GSoC project I am currently working on a >> piece of software that is called rescue-initramfs. If installed it >> installs dropbear (SSH), some filesystem tools, micro-evtd >> and uboot-envtools to the ramdisk. This enables people to >> login to their box even if the rootfs didn't come up properly. >> A typical use case is for users that have installed Debian on >> their NAS device and don't have a serial console attached. >> >> It would be useful for these users if they, during installation, >> could get a dialog asking them if they want to install >> rescue-initramfs. So I ask, where should this go? > > Is there any reason why it should not be installed by default? > > We could always leave up to the administrator to remove the package if > such feature is really not desired.
Most users of headless devices would probobly want it. So I'll create an udeb for rescue-initramfs which installs it during d-i and then put rescue-initramfs-udeb in installer/build/pkg-lists/network-console. Is that a good solution?! -- Per -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
