On Mon, 03 Apr 2017, The Wanderer wrote: > What you don't have is a choice *in the installer* of which init system > to *start out with*. The installer will always set up systemd (possible > unusual situations involving preseeding aside); if you want sysvinit > instead, you have to break out of the do-things-for-you friendly install > process and do some package installs + uninstalls by hand.
You can just append: preseed/late_command="in-target apt-get install -y sysvinit-core" to the installer command line. Or you can roll your own install media with its own syslinux.cfg which adds that or something more complicated in a preseed file. You don't need to fork the installer, or submit any patches upstream. If you want something more complicated, like not installing systemd at all, you'll have to pass --include and --exclude options to debootstrap using the base-installer/includes and base-installer/excludes preseed options; something like: base-installer/includes=sysvinit-core base-installer/excludes=systemd-sysv but that's totally untested. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com No amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free [...] You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. -- Robert Heinlein _Revolt in 2010_ p54
