Hi! On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Luca Capello <l...@pca.it> wrote: > Hi Per! > > Adding debian-boot@ for BabelBox information. > > On Mon, 05 Nov 2012 21:06:38 +0100, Per Andersson wrote: >>> I have not finished yet to fix the squeeze version, but you should >>> forget about it and use setup a wheezy BabelBox. I already have a >>> working installation for the latter, so I can simply send you the >>> tarball ;-) >> >> Can you send me the tarball?! :-D > > Good point, thank you for the reminder.
Installing wheezy on a laptop here. Actually on three but all are not going to the conference. :-) > The squeeze tarball is useless, I didn't look at it but guessed so. > simply clone the Git repository and > follow the instructions on the wiki: > > <http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=d-i/babelbox.git;a=summary> Nice! > <http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/BabelBox> Following that so far. > The above works also OK on a KVM/libvirt installation: replace the three > occurrences of sda in 00del_partition, babelbox-grub and cronscript. Any reason I would want to do that? > For wheezy, if you want to show GNOME 3 you need 3D, which means that > you should probably also install one of the firmware-* packages. The > following patch should be enough, tested on the Debian Events Box, but > not yet on a VM (and I will polish it before committing...): I'll try them out. Will it work with the graphics card on a thinkpad x61s do you think? > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > diff --git a/preseed.cfg b/preseed.cfg > index 2838d22..ac5a239 100644 > --- a/preseed.cfg > +++ b/preseed.cfg > @@ -82,8 +91,7 @@ d-i lilo-installer/skip bollean true > tasksel tasksel/first multiselect > > ## instead install a quite minimal GNOME setup and desktop-base (for > spacefun theme) > -d-i pkgsel/include string gdm3, gnome-session, gnome-icon-teme, desktop-base, > -xserver-xorg-core, xserver-xorg-input-evdev, xserver-xorg-video-vesa, > xserver-xorg > +d-i pkgsel/include string alsa-base, alsa-utils, gdm3, gnome-session, > gnome-icon-teme, desktop-base, xserver-xorg-core, xserver-xorg-input-evdev, > xserver-xorg-video-vesa, xserver-xorg-video-fbdev, xserver-xorg-video-all, > xserver-xorg, plymouth > > # Don't install popcon > popularity-contest popularity-contest/participate boolean false > diff --git a/preseed_early b/preseed_early > old mode 100755 > new mode 100644 > index efb2074..f7ad297 > --- a/preseed_early > +++ b/preseed_early > @@ -11,7 +11,4 @@ db_info babelbox/info || true > mkdir -p /lib/partman/init.d > cp /hd-media/srv/babelbox/00del_partition /lib/partman/init.d/ > > -apt-install alsa-base || true > -apt-install alsa-utils || true > - > exit 0 > diff --git a/preseed_late b/preseed_late > old mode 100755 > new mode 100644 > index 708775c..7d9bffc > --- a/preseed_late > +++ b/preseed_late > @@ -13,10 +13,20 @@ mount /dev/discs/disc0/part1 /hd-media -o remount,rw > > sed -i "s/^set default=.*$/set default=\"3\"/" /hd-media/boot/grub/grub.cfg > > +# Install extra packages, e.g. firmware needed for graphics cards > +for I in $(find /hd-media/srv/babelbox/ -type f -name \*.deb -maxdepth 1 > 2>&1) ; do > + cp -f "$I" /target/var/cache/apt/archives/ > + chroot /target dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/$(basename "$I") > +done > if [ -d /target/etc/gdm3 ] ; then > # Enable automatic login (chroot because of bug in busybox sed) > chroot /target sed -i "/^\[daemon\]/a\AutomaticLoginEnable = > true\nAutomaticLogin = debian" /etc/gdm3/daemon.conf > fi > +if [ -x /target/usr/sbin/plymouth-set-default-theme ] ; then > + # Set default plymouth theme > + chroot /target plymouth-set-default-theme spacefun > + chroot /target dpkg-reconfigure plymouth > +fi > > > exit 0 > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > Please report your experience :-) Of course! Best, Per -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CABYrXSTopWDW5wc4UHohL=Pi9C75J_CRQKWoi6=txh+uoqt...@mail.gmail.com
