"Michael Banck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 04:33:27PM +0100, Samuel Liddicott wrote: > > The final clue I have had: > > http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch04s07.html > > > > Can this be true for partial answer sets or must it be complete; that is to > > say the installation is either entirely automatic, or entirely manual? > > Debian-installer is very flexible and (relatively) easy to modify. For > example, I believe the s390 port needs telnet running quite early I > believe, so you could look at this and adopt it for ssh or whatever you > want.
Thanks Michael, I should have thought of this! >Also, if your network cards gets detected (which should be the > case), the network will be configurated automatically via DHCP. You'd > need to somehow preselect the language question, I believe this is > possible as well. In fact using the boot string: DEBCONF_PRIORITY=critical the only question that needs pre-selecting is the language. I'll have to get the source for the d-i package then; I just hope there is a nice simple "build a d-i disk image" reciple that I can modify rather than do it all by hand. > Debian-installer is currently being polished for the next Debian > release. I suggest you help with the release in whatever way you can - > afterwards, development can continue for less common situations like > unattended installs. It's certainly possible, but the main focus right > now is to get the release out of the door. You can always implement what > you need yourself of course. Currently I am, in the form of a slightly modified root-fs image, but I like to get such features built in to save me work next time! > Note that I'm not a paart of the Debian Installer team so this is not an > authoritave answer in any way, I'm just trying to be helpful. Thanks Sam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
