On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 01:00:32PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > I'd like to make a few minor changes for my own use - specify my local > mirror, maybe partition layout and such. > > I started out by unpacking the initrd to see what's in it, and was > pretty happy to see debian-installer is a shell script: there's almost > no limit to the magic one can do there on a good day:-) > > There's no clue there as to what to do, but I did try the alternative > f/e (bogl) and discovered it does nothing useful. > > A bit of finding and grepping and I discovered where the list of > mirrors is. I've _not_ found a sensible way to change that list, nor to > specify my preferred value in any kind of configuration file. > > Next, I went looking for the d-i home page. I tried > www.debian.org/debian-installer - no, not there. Finally, Google gave up > some clues and I finished up at https://alioth.debian.org/projects/d-i/
Have you been to http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer ? > There, I find "This project has no visible documents ." > No subprojects have been set up, or you cannot view them. What you need to do is checkout a copy of the d-i subversion repository. See http://www.nl.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/svn There's a lot of documentation, some of it quite enlightening within a directory of the source tree. > The question: where is the information I need to change the mirror to be > chosen, specify any initial defaults I need? > > btw My browser doesn't like the certificate from this site, its issuer > is unknown. > Yep, that's normal. :-| Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
