Sascha Wintz - Server4You Inc. wrote: > Although it looks really promising, I have a few comments to make: > > 1) > # To preseed the root password, you have to put it in the clear in this > # file. That is not a very good idea, use caution! > # (XXX: In fact, this won't work, because passwd clears the settings > # before asking for a root password. This may not be fixed before the sarge > # release, if it's fixed at all.) > #passwd passwd/root-password password r00tme > #passwd passwd/root-password-again password r00tme > > > This is something we really need to work. Maybe there are more people who need to > set the preseed the root password. How are my chances for this to change?
Basically it's a matter of convicing the maintainer of the passwd package that bug #271407 is worth fixing. There is a patch in there.. Note that you can work around this by using one of the preseed script hooks to set a root password. Or by using such a hook to manually install a fixed passwd package. > 2) > #### Network configuration. > d-i netcfg/choose_interface select eth0 > d-i netcfg/use_dhcp boolean boolean false > d-i netcfg/disable_dhcp boolean true > d-i netcfg/get_nameservers string 69.64.44.50 > d-i netcfg/get_ipaddress string 69.64.44.39 > d-i netcfg/get_netmask string 255.255.255.0 > d-i netcfg/get_gateway string 69.64.44.1 > d-i netcfg/confirm_static boolean true > > Naturally the server gets its ip via dhcp. But I would like to change the network > configuration to a static IP. Above is my futile attempt to make that happen. > > But then it's already documented, that setting the IP won't work, if the server got > booted via network. I don't understand this. We do not inherit the address assigned from dhcp when netbooting the installer, so I don't see why static config would not work. I don't know what documentation misled you about this. > 3) > There are 2 packages that keep asking for things, like if I want to install some > libs > without maildir support. > > Is there any way to suppress that? If it asks using debconf, you can use the normal preseeding to avoid those questions too. Use debconf-get-selections to get all available items and grep for the package or question. If it does not ask using debconf, file a bug and pick a better package.. -- see shy jo
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