-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 07/04/2014 05:07 PM, Brian wrote:
> On Fri 04 Jul 2014 at 16:30:28 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 07/04/2014 04:25 PM, Brian wrote: >>> What problem are you trying to solve? >> >> I expect that (he?) wants to have the process be more-or-less fully >> automated - i.e., have the mouting and whatever else is necessary >> for the installer to recognize and use the (externally located) >> preseed file be handled automatically, preferably without even >> needing to explicitly specify the preseed-file location at install >> time. > > Possibly. The OP's response should clarify that. It's achievable > wihout touching the initrd. I'd be interested to know how. This is something I'd actually like to do myself, at some point, though I don't have an active need for it soon. >> Assuming the initrd used in the installer environment is >> customizable / tweakable, this shouldn't be impossible, but I'd >> have to do some research to figure out how to go about it. > > Basically: gunzip and use cpio on the initrd. Add preseed file. > Reverse the previous process. Yes, I know how to modify an initrd. Putting the preseed file into the initrd would seem to involve baking it into the (potentially read-only) boot media, though, which he specifically indicated he wanted to avoid. What I read him as saying he wants to do is to have the preseed file on a separate (writable) device, probably a USB stick, and have it be automatically accessed from the unchanging boot media. The reason I thought it might be necessary to modify the initrd is to add scripts to mount the appropriate device, and to specify a default preseed-file path which is under the resulting mount point. Depending on how exactly d-i is architected, it doesn't seem impossible that doing that might even require a custom build of d-i, but it's certainly far more likely that it wouldn't. As I said, it would represent a worst-case scenario. - -- The Wanderer Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. A government exists to serve its citizens, not to control them. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJTtxwBAAoJEASpNY00KDJrKx0P/A2z1YwzW0C9MguRpfLcugHz a+/oSfRL2WT+7RCgPagOTxBnCPCnrit4o8Hho4Ybfngh7+EuKkMJNUq0bBFp0mq1 m6u+u6A3sqiI8NXzBPEbR4GI8UTeFXc0tjvNzcPKjaB0pNdTTgihM8+ZQ/tBHG+J PAZiAg5hpggTjuTegUoBX/742371XGr8o6+2ULFt7bn+5frzg8pOwsen5qpFyOiZ xNQ6DrFESxzUSKeFq8qRUSElF67Ux4OK5y6x4api18xd+WkcBjS0C7xyUVmd1/nS HoAS4/jN3XjmNas8oC4Ch6uqth2AlbxgXOKeiYrRNwpslThgX5LKXBjv/4TwH9p1 ERE5POxuf7kH3Nk/7/a9Y+QvScAyzGJ5F5r9zg3Lm2FK/aF9prz2moy5K19YYxJp 5FK16Sa9s5S6EFD13zIJfbx34HEwQn9wcRS5dMzFuKPXvf1+kGlL34viN1pnrjFM 8JcDJqusjUA+tTizqb6/u5UGXnB+FEis2zbuInyGCVpJRPAbEiJSGEOm2JSGG2CV PhB7cOp+VCJj1cYVVwfxoSedcHRpGlGcLph6Rg4za63fJgzbYQtybuEsmYBr0YXc 4TZaOz57UnmmRHWj/DwrU6W9kKKGoC8p0rVnS05fNC0+lEb2L7afVzLi5ITgb8pG QVUkTzGx2wuNuwQrh+Ui =J4nb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53b71c01.5050...@fastmail.fm
