On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 08:52:32AM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote: > On 17.05.2016 02:13, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > I'm not sure how reasonable it is to have such a long list of meta > > packages in the installer. See attached tasksel-gtk-greyscale.png for > > the initial display with the graphical installer, and attached > > tasksel-text-greyscale.png for the text mode installer. > > I don't see it problematic as it is in the moment: The list is not too > long: Even if it does not fit on one screen, the rest is visible with > just one scroll, and this is indicated by the scroollbar. And I don't > think that the number of options is too much (it shouldn't be much more, > however).
I'm just wondering if the blend install could be implemented one level higher using the ISO image isolinux menu structure. As an example: It is pretty much possible to install the Debian Edu blend using the stock Debian mini.iso image (works, cause all udebs are fetched from the net in this case): wget https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/amd64/daily/netboot/mini.iso On the kernel command line add: anna/choose_modules=debian-edu-install-udeb (the additionally needed debian-edu-profile-udeb will be pulled in as a dependency). To get it working w/o touching the kernel command line, modify the ISO image (btxt.cfg is the blends text install config file): modified menu.cfg ----------------- menu hshift 7 menu width 61 menu title _Debian GNU/Linux installer boot menu include stdmenu.cfg include gtk.cfg include txt.cfg menu begin advanced menu label ^Advanced options menu title Advanced options include stdmenu.cfg label mainmenu menu label ^Back.. menu exit include adgtk.cfg include adtxt.cfg menu end menu begin blends menu label ^Blend options menu title Blend options include stdmenu.cfg label mainmenu menu label ^Back.. menu exit include btxt.cfg menu end include x86menu.cfg label help menu label ^Help text help Display help screens; type 'menu' at boot prompt to return to this menu endtext config prompt.cfg include spkgtk.cfg include spk.cfg added btxt.cfg (with debian-astro just as an example showing up in the menu) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- label edu blend menu label Edu Blend install kernel linux append vga=788 initrd=initrd.gz anna/choose_modules=debian-edu-install-udeb --- label astro blend menu label Astro Blend install kernel linux append vga=788 initrd=initrd.gz anna/choose_modules=debian-astro-install-udeb --- All blends would need their own debian-<blend_name>-install-udeb and debian-<blend_name>-profile-udeb; these need to be on all official Debian installation media if these should work like the mini.iso image. The Debian Edu udebs could be used as examples to create blend specific ones: git clone git+ssh://git.debian.org/git/debian-edu/debian-edu-install Wolfgang
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