21.04.2012 17:57, Camaleón kirjoitti: > On Sat, 21 Apr 2012 15:06:30 +0100, peter green wrote: > >> Sometimes it is desirable for a system to be shipped in a pre-installed >> form. This may be pre-installed on hardware or it may be in the form of >> an image. In such cases there are a number of questions (language, >> keyboard layout, hostname, network settings, timezone etc) that will be >> known to the end user but will not be known to the person doing the >> installation. There are also certain security settings that should be >> reset under such scenarios. > > Mmm... You mean something similiar to what Windows pre-built OEM systems > do, right? When you first power on your brand-new computer, you get a > guided wizard that allows the user to input his/her basic data and then > it finishes the setup and configures the desktop. > >> The obvious soloution is to set things up so that the user is asked >> these questions when they first boot thier system. I could probablly >> roll my own scripts to do this if I had to but i'm wondering if this is >> an already solved problem and if so whether someone could point me in >> the direction of the soloution. > > I don't of any tool to automate this task in linux (it's usually the > admin who makes this job at install time instead the end user or is the > user who afterwards configures the system to his/her needs) but it would > be more than convenient to have such standarized tool at least for > companies who sell or prepare their own pre-built Debian systems. > > I wonder how Canonical, Red Hat or SUSE SLES/SLED (i.e., commercial linux > distributions) manage this... > > Greetings, >
I can only answer to your latest wondering. Ubuntu has option for "OEM install" in LIVE-CD menu or at least it used to have. I think that that option has moved to alternative (text) install CD. -- Mika Suomalainen gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys 4DB53CFE82A46728 Key fingerprint = 24BC 1573 B8EE D666 D10A AA65 4DB5 3CFE 82A4 6728
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