OK, after much work I have a functional version of customization-modules, at http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/debian/customization-modules_0.7.tar.gz .
http//home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/debian/dummy-udeb_0.2_all.udeb contains a mostly-empty udeb which I use as a test case: this is the udeb I attempt to install as a "customization module". Look for /lib/firmware/dummy-file.txt. Loading from CD-ROM is disabled because of unforeseen problems -- loading cdrom-retriever causes the CD-ROM to be checked for validity, and of course the netboot CD isn't a valid Debian apt source. I suspect that the best solution will be tweaks of a similar scale to the tweaks I made to net-retriever (small tweaks, that is). Loading from the network is untested, mainly because I haven't set up a network site to load from. Loading from floppy, however, *works* as of now. One minor issue: upon configuring anna, which happens when I invoke the customization-modules main menu item, anna asks about kernel module loading. I have simply been saying "no". Is there some way to avoid this -- to tell anna 'do that later, not now'? Under the expected use case, we may well want to load the customization modules specifically *before* loading kernel modules. Future plans: I think I'll have to break this into four binary packages. One for the main menu item, and one for each of the possible sources. This is due to dependencies: I don't want choose-mirror to configure when the user didn't choose net, for instance. All in all, this is going pretty well. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bush admitted to violating FISA and said he was proud of it. So why isn't he in prison yet?... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
