On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 08:51:15PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: >Hi Steve, > >On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 04:51:01PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> * Generating complete images (as opposed to installer images) brings >> up other issues - d-i already asks a set of useful questions >> (keymap, timezone, etc.) at installation time. For other types of >> images, we'd need to add a first-boot customisation/configuration >> tool to ask those questions. Preseeding could do it, but how do we >> do this? Defer some of the installer steps until first boot, like >> live-installer? > >One example of prior art that may be worth looking at is Ubuntu's >oem-config, part of the 'ubiquity' source package: > > http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/u/ubiquity/ > http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-installer/ubiquity/trunk > >This has both graphical and console front-ends for use in configuring a >system at first boot of a preinstalled image.
ACK, thanks for the suggestion. As/when/if somebody finds time to work on this that could be very helpful! -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Armed with "Valor": "Centurion" represents quality of Discipline, Honor, Integrity and Loyalty. Now you don't have to be a Caesar to concord the digital world while feeling safe and proud. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140911121731.gk14...@einval.com
