On Wed 09 Aug 2017 at 08:49:46 +0200, Fourhundred Thecat wrote: > I have downloaded debian netinstaller: > > wget > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stretch/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/debian-installer/amd64/initrd.gz > > I have unpacked the image, and I was looking around to try to understand > how it works. I assumed, there was some config file with a list of all > the packages that are going to be installed. > > I would like to modify that list, and replace systemd with sysvinit-core. > > I don't see any such package list in the installer, and I could not find > much information on how the installer works. > > Could somebody please help me understand, where the installer gets the > list of packages it installs ? And how I can change that list? > > PS: I know I can remove systemd and install sysvinit-core *after* the > installation. But I am trying to avoid installing systemd and then > removing it. I would like to install sysvinit-core right away. > > I am also using preseeding for installation, but as far as I know, this > cannot be achieved with preseeding alone.
Doesn't the wiki have advice about remastering the installer? Not quite an answer to your question, but you could explore the suggestion in https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/07/msg00321.html 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. I think this can be preseeded. -- Brian.
