On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 10:32:10AM -0800, Jason Fesler wrote: > 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?
dbootstrap is what does the kernel install, it's in the utilities folder. debootstrap is what does the base install, it is its own debian package. -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual> | | debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | May the Source be with you | *----------------------------------------------------------------* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
