On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 09:05:19PM -0200, Andre Luis Lopes wrote: > I for sure would love to use automated d-i installs since I have close > to 70 machines which are all going to be used for giving students > training on FLOSS (Free/Libre and Open Source Software) using Debian. > I'm really interested in pre-seeding methods used to feed pre-answered > questions to the debconf database. *That* would be a killer feature, > believe me.
Well, it works, but it's rather hairy. I simply did a normal install once, fetched /var/lib/cdebconf/questions.dat, removed anything irrelevant and added it to the floppy with EXTRAFILES. There are probably a lot prettier ways of doing that (AFAIK Skolelinux uses a pre-seeding udeb, for instance), but it works. :-) Pre-seeding in the second stage also is possible -- one of the alternatives is of course using an alternative debconf backend (LDAP? WWW?); the other is hooking into base-config or something (I did this for base-config 1.x, but haven't been able to do it with base-config 2.x just yet) and doing debconf-copydb from there. Works fine, or at least used to a few months ago (sid/sarge changes, and so do the debconf questions :-) ). /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
