For reasons more than the shear joy of writing one :-) I'm working on something that will be jumpstart-like for the environment I work in. I've looked at FAI; however, I don't want to go with it at this time. And it appears that while work is being made for debian to do a reasonable unattended installer, it looks like that might be a ways off :-).
I've got the netbooting and partitioning down; grepping the CVS repository for "dbootstrap" (which I found called from init, on root.bin for potato) for clues, I kinda fell short. Much of it I'm sure is unfamiliarity. What I could use at this point is a pointer as to what gets dumped on the disk after I partition the drive. Adam Di Carlo > |Specify whether you mean the files placed on the target system for |'install kernel and drivers' step or the 'install base' step. In this case, both. I was rooting around the source, looking for something that would go grabbing a packing list of sorts, but failed to find anything like that. FWIW, this is initially for potato; I'm personally aiming to have it be flexible enough for whatever our needs evolve to. Can anyone who's frobbed the install stuff the hard way give me any pointers? -- -- Jason Fesler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://gigo.com/resume.html "Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
