I've finally managed to test a netboot install of a lenny-based debian-edu. It was _not_ as easy as with etch. And it didn't work.
At first, I thought it would be one problem - I need to use the svn-version of the installer to build an installer. There was more problems. I started to use the same procedure as I did with the etch-based[1], only changing some smaller pieces, like the mirror I fetched tha data from, and building Packages for a new target. I may be mistaken, But as far as I know, I need to use svn version of the installer, and udebs from sid to make this work. I ended up creating a sid chroot (which I for some reason called lenny ) which I can use to fetch the udebs, and build the installer. The debs was easy enough to fetch ourside the chroot, but I fetched the debs also inside the chroot, I did not fetch the sources, because I disabled it when I worked from etch-installation, and did not even try to fetch it later when I ended up inside the chroot. The next problem was that with etch, I could use debootstrap --print-debs etch <target> <mirror> to get a list of the needed packages for a netinstall. For lenny, this only gives a minimal list of packages, so I ended up fetching everything that I already fetch for etch, except a few, and added some after testing (and failing). So the list of "HARDPKGS" is a lot longer than for etch I finally managed to install a minimal normal debian installation (lenny) from my repository, and had hopes for the debian-edu test. Since I don't have the sources in my repository for now, I wont give you the address to my repository, but I'll upload the syslog[2] from the installer. I'll give a short resyme of what I found failed. 1. multiseat-udeb - this one is missing from the local lenny-test repository at skolelinux.org/skolelinux (I fetched the one from etch-test) 2. debian-edu-profile-udeb - I get the question of which profile to install, and if I want to wipe out the harddisk, but I never get the question if I want to contribute to popcon. 3. Partitioning - looks like lvm is missing, and I get the to use manual partitioning. 4. apt-setup - the installer fails to add additional repositories. For etch it added ftp.skolelinux.no, both for debian/main and skolelinux/local 5. tasksel - No additional packages, means very few tasks are availible, and none of the education tasks. [1] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/NetbootInstall [2] http://user.skolelinux.no/~finnarne/lenny_installer_20080107.log -- Finn-Arne Johansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bzz.no/ EE2A71C6403A3D191FCDC043006F1215062E6642 062E6642 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
