On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 12:00:37PM -0300, Ivan Paganini wrote: > Hello again folks at debian-custom! greetings.
> I'm happy to say that I managed to use the simple-cdd to build a Debian > installation CD. Thanks! great :) > But now I have some new questions: good questions, indeed... > 1) I want to set the keyboard layout, the language and other debconf > instructions. i would recommend using the --locale commandline option or setting locale= in profiles/*.conf (you only need to set it in one). i.e. to set the locale settings to spanish in the US: ./build-simple-cdd --locale es_US in profiles/default.conf: locale=es_US it's my understanding that --locale should handle language, country and keyboard settings in most situations, but there's also --language and --country, which might need to be updated to work with etch. i haven't tested it myself, but there's --keyboard too. all of these options modify KERNEL_PARAMS, so there is no need to do that manually. > What is the order of precedence of the files default.preseed, > my-profile.preseed and the KERNEL_PARAMETERS? the order of events is sort of like this... 1. KERNEL_PARAMS modifies the boot prompt, so is effective immediately. 2. language/country settings kick in 3. default.preseed is loaded 4. then other *.preseed files are loaded. whatever loads last (*.preseed) overrides debconf questions, except for things like language/country settings, which kick in before any preseeding is loaded. > What do I have to put in the default, in the my-profile and in the > Kernelparameters? it's a little difficult to explain exactly... almost all debconf questions should go into default.preseed or my-profile.preseed. default.preseed always gets loaded, and the other *.preseed (i.e. my-profile.preseed) files only get loaded when you select those profiles. if you're only making a CD with a single profile, feel free to put everything into profiles/default.* the only things that need to go in KERNEL_PARAMS are things that happen before the simple-cdd-profiles udeb is loaded, such as language, country and keyboard settings. > A link to a howto or else would be very appreciated. see the documentation for debian-installer for all your various preseeding options: http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/apbs04.html most all of these can go into default.preseed or *.preseed > 2) I managed to include the xfce (for example) packages in the CD, but I > wanted > to install it during the installation. The tasksel Desktop will install it? Or > what other option do I have to set? What is the options that I have to set to > install specific packages? there isn't any integration into tasksel at the moment. so what you probably want to do is ... tasksel --task-packages xfce-desktop >> profiles/my-profile.packages that should be about the same as selecting the task. i might work on some sort of profiles/*.tasks method in the near future. > 3) Can I suppress completely the network part of the installer? I dont want to > use network at all, so there is a way to remove the netcfg installation or > just > set all the options to some settings? i know it can be done, i don't remember how. see the debian-installer preseeding documentation mentioned above for suggestions. hope that explains things, some of it is a little complicated... live well, vagrant -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
