If any of you happen to have a nice PXE boot environment for your custom
distro, and think it will be a piece of cake to turn it into an install
disc: it ain't that simple.

In the PXE environment, the components (main, etc) come from the seed
file line

  d-i mirror/components

but (and I had to read base-installer package source for this, the
library.sh file) your CDROM install will get its components list from

   /cdrom/.disk/base_components


Heaven forbid we use anything as crass as *consistency*.
Sheesh.


The other gotcha is that if you want your CDROM to automagically select
the keyboard and country and language, you have to put it inside the
initrd.gz file *and* into the isolinux/text.cfg kernel file= option.


Now its bombing slightly further along.  So, more gotchas to come.  

-- 
Regards
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