On 09/23/2017 12:50 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 11:19:17AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
I want a very custom installer. I'm looking for something that takes a broad
view of the boot process. I've found much on the fine details, but "the
forest is being hidden by the leaves on the branches". Browsing historical
links from <https://joeyh.name/code/> suggest my peculiar goals may have
been used ~10 years ago.
TIA
What are you actually after
Quite literally "A survey of boot process in Debian on i386 with Legacy
BIOS" ;} I just searched my old message threads and came across a reply
received in 2011 stating "You should first clarify what's what you have
in mind, I'm not seeing your goal." With 20/20 hindsight I can recognize
the topic of that thread as being related to my current projectS {note
the plural}. Many of those treads would not have been begun if I had an
adequate understanding of the boot process.
- one way or another, you're likely to have
to use the installer Debian uses if you want to get stuff to work ...
In so much that I'll be using some existing udebs. I'm not so sure that
anyone using my "thingy" would identify it's roots as being the Debian
installer.
