On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 09:47:00AM -0500, Steve Feehan wrote: > Yesterday afternoon I decided to proceed down the path of building > a custom debian installer netboot image with the file-preseed and/or > initrd-preseed udebs. > > The first problem I encountered is that the initrd-preseed udeb seems > to not exist for the version of preseed used in stable. The other > preseed udebs for stable are version "1.01" but initrd-preseed only > exists as version "1.14.1". > > So my questions... > > 1. Am I proceeding in the right direction? Ie. is creating a custom > debian-installer netboot image the correct solution to storing a > preseed.cfg inside the initrd? > > 2. Do I need to use/build the debian-installer version from sid since > there does not appear to be an initrd-preseed for stable? > > 3. Is it possible to use the sid installer to install a stable system? > > Thanks.
Hello, I'm using the sarge netboot CD to build a custom install-CD aswell. I applied a "patch" from http://www.hands.com/d-i/ in order to be able to do preseeding. In my case, the file is stored in the initrd too. greets, -- Steven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

