In reference to a message from Joey Hess, dated Dec 07:
> Here is another debian-installer demo system. It still needs a real
> debian system and doesn't chroot, nor does it even use cdebconf although
> it probably could. But it is rather more impressive than the last one:
Here's the cdebconf version :-)
samwise[21:42] demo% du -sh
276k .
[ Not too big, I hope.... compresses to about 40k ]
samwise[21:42] demo% find
.
./var
./var/lib
./var/lib/dpkg
./var/lib/dpkg/info
./var/lib/dpkg/info/udpkg.list
./var/lib/dpkg/info/main-menu.list
./var/lib/dpkg/info/main-menu.postrm
./var/lib/dpkg/info/main-menu.templates
./var/lib/dpkg/info/wget-retriever.list
./var/lib/dpkg/info/choose-mirror.list
./var/lib/dpkg/info/choose-mirror.postrm
./var/lib/dpkg/info/choose-mirror.postinst
./var/lib/dpkg/info/anna.list
./var/lib/dpkg/info/anna.postrm
./var/lib/dpkg/info/anna.templates
./var/lib/dpkg/info/anna.postinst
./var/lib/dpkg/info/choose-mirror.templates
./var/lib/dpkg/status
./var/lib/cdebconf
./var/lib/cdebconf/templates
./var/lib/cdebconf/questions
./var/cache
./var/cache/anna
./usr
./usr/bin
./usr/bin/udpkg
./usr/bin/anna
./usr/bin/choose-mirror
./usr/bin/main-menu
./usr/bin/dpkg-reconfigure
./usr/bin/debconf
./usr/bin/debconf-loadtemplate
./usr/lib
./usr/lib/debian-installer
./usr/lib/debian-installer/retriever
./usr/lib/debian-installer/retriever/wget-retriever
./usr/lib/cdebconf
./usr/lib/cdebconf/db
./usr/lib/cdebconf/db/textdb.so
./usr/lib/cdebconf/frontend
./usr/lib/cdebconf/frontend/text.so
./usr/lib/libdebconf.so.0.1.0
./usr/lib/libdebconf.so.0.1
./usr/lib/libdebconf.so
./usr/share
./usr/share/debconf
./usr/share/debconf/confmodule
./usr/share/debconf/frontend
./etc
./etc/debconf.conf
samwise[21:43] demo% LD_LIBRARY_PATH=usr/lib usr/bin/debconf-loadtemplate \
var/lib/dpkg/info/*.templates
samwise[21:43] demo% LD_LIBRARY_PATH=usr/lib PATH=usr/bin:$PATH \
usr/share/debconf/frontend usr/bin/main-menu
[ using the text ui, not very polished right now, and the titles are not
set correctly. also, it doesn't optimize away single selects like perl
debconf does, but that's easily changed ]
Configuring main-menu
=====================
Choose the next step:
Here is the main menu of the Debian installer.
1) Finish setting up the Debian installer
1 - 1> 1
Choose
======
Use a mirror from what country?
The goal is to find a mirror that is close to you on the network -- be
aware that near countries, or even your own, may not be the best choice.
1) Australia
2) Austria
3) Belgium
4) Brazil
5) Britain (UK)
6) Bulgaria
7) Canada
8) China
9) Costa Rica
10) Croatia
11) Czech Republic
12) Denmark
13) Estonia
14) Finland
15) France
16) Germany
17) Greece
18) Hong Kong
19) Hungary
20) Indonesia
21) Ireland
22) Italy
23) Japan
24) Korea (South)
25) Latvia
26) Mexico
27) Netherlands
28) New Zealand
29) Norway
30) Poland
31) Portugal
32) Russia
33) Slovakia
34) Slovenia
35) South Africa
36) Spain
37) Sweden
38) Switzerland
39) Taiwan
40) Turkey
41) United States
42) enter information manually
1 - 42 [default = 41]>
Choose
======
Choose the Debian mirror to use:
Select the mirror Debian will be downloaded from. You should select a
mirror that is close to you on the net.
1) http.us.debian.org
2) ftp.eecs.umich.edu
3) llug.sep.bnl.gov
4) ftp.debian.org
5) ftp-mirror.internap.com
6) debian.uchicago.edu
7) ftp.us.debian.org
8) debian.tod.net
9) lyre.mit.edu
10) mirrors.xmission.com
11) download.sourceforge.net
12) ftp.kernel.org
13) sunsite.unc.edu
14) ftp.cerias.purdue.edu
15) debian.fifi.org
16) mirrors.rcn.net
17) debian.gnaps.com
18) ftp.keystealth.org
19) debian.bilow.com
20) natasha.stmarytx.edu
21) ftp.digex.net
22) debian.lrlug.org
23) ftp.tux.org
1 - 23 [default = 1]>
Enter http proxy information, or leave blank for none:
If you need to use a http proxy to access the outside world, enter the
proxy information here. Otherwise, leave this blank.
When entering proxy information, use the standard form of
"http://[[user][:pass]@]host[:port]/"
http://samwise.tausq.org:3128/
[ pause ... ]
Choose
======
Choose the next step:
Here is the main menu of the Debian installer.
1) autodetection of ethernet cards
2) Finish setting up the Debian installer
1 - 2> 1
[ ctrl - c ]
samwise[21:44] demo% find usr/bin
usr/bin
usr/bin/udpkg
usr/bin/anna
usr/bin/choose-mirror
usr/bin/main-menu
usr/bin/dpkg-reconfigure
usr/bin/debconf
usr/bin/debconf-loadtemplate
usr/bin/memdetect
usr/bin/mdmdetect
usr/bin/ethdetect
usr/bin/diskdetect
usr/bin/cpudetect
usr/bin/cddetect
demo2a can be found at:
http://people.debian.org/~tausq/debian-installer/demo2a.tar.gz
cdebconf actually also has a ncurses frontend in the works. (it
configures debconf (the perl one) even :-), but it only handles a subset
of the question types now so i've not used it in this demo run.
randolph
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