On Jan 13, 2009, at 2:58 AM, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
* Martin Michlmayr <t...@cyrius.com> [2009-01-13 08:23]:
3) Is there any way to have d-i offer slug users the same kind of
network configuration options as are considered normal for users of
other systems? For example, it appears that there is room for some
user-definable data at the end of the flash image (see the
"--payload" option in the upslug2 man page). Can that be used to
preseed some d-i parameters, such as networking configuration?
Good question; I don't know. Maybe you can investigate. But this
would require users to regenerate the image...
Sorry, I was wrong here. Yeah, this sounds like an interesting
approach.
I don't think regenerating the image should be necessary. If "--
payload" can be used along with the image you provide, then there
could be code in the image that looks to see if the "payload" area
has something that looks like a preseed (maybe a "magic number" or
checksum or timestamp or something else to be reasonably sure we're
not being fooled by random data or by stuff left-over from the last d-
i.) If there is, it can use it, if not, it can ignore it.
And the preseed can be quite general, not just for network
configuration, though I assume that network configuration would be
one very common use.
If '--prefix' can't be used, then maybe just concatenating the
(suitably encapsulated) preseed on the end of the image?
Or am I missing something? I don't know much about the internals of
the upslug2 process, so I'm sure there's plenty I could be missing.
Is there documentation beyond the upslug2 man page I could look at?
In particular, I gather that the program on the slug end of the
upslug2 process is called "redboot" -- is that correct? Is there a
Linksys manual or technical paper describing redboot?
Thanks!
Rick
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