On 12/29/2017 03:28 AM, Carl Karsten wrote:
in 2009 I messed with debootstrap to set up a ide drive in a usb caddy > - When I was done, put the drive in a headless box, power it up and it would boot into a new debian box. I forget where installing grub fit into this process. for sure it was a building a "normal" debian install on a blank drive.
That's a reasonable description of my goal. GRUB would not enter it as the end product would be a bootable flash drive to be mailed to someone else. The Debian installer can manufacture that result (with use of custom preseeds) but it asks the wrong set of questions. Basically it does a good job of doing everything for everyone and every environment.
Power users would likely consider my goal to be a crippled installer. But it would intrinsically meet *MY* goals by doing things *MY* way. Those flash drives might be considered a prototype OS to be mailed to a friend in another state.
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