Op 10-02-2007 om 16:07 schreef Joey Hess: > Robert Millan wrote: > > If we could have a prestablished path in which a preseed file can be put, > > on which d-i would search in existing ntfs partitions (much similarly at how > > it searches for .iso files), win32-loader could put a preseed file there. > > > > A good place for me would be c:\debian\<whatever> > > Not doable without a good deal of code, and for the netboot image, that > would have to come after network setup (to download the disk drivers), > and so wouldn't be very useful for preseeding the stuff you want to > preseed, anyway.
Could that extra code also look at an USB memory stick? So it makes preseeding possible for an unmodified CD. (adding a bootparameter to actual look at the USB makes sense) > You could repackage the initrd and put the preseed file into it.. it'd > even be possible to do this by appending an appopriately built cpio file > containing your /preseed.cfg to the initrd, since it's really an initramfs > cpio image and initramfs stiches cpio archives together. Hey, that could also work for unmodified CD, the bootparamater would be ramdisk=/dev/the_USB_stick. Cheers Geert Stappers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
