On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 23:33:57 +0200
Stefan Schweizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I want to preinstall Gentoo Linux on some devices for customers. Do
> you have any tips for preinstallation, any scripts? What is the
> correct prcedure of doing so?
> Anyone knows of something like a "sysprep" script for linux that will
> ask the costumer for user  and passwort setup when he first switches
> on the PC?

what kind of hardware and his goal ?
what kind of users ?
here are the most important questions. For me, it will be a must to create
a "stage4" (stage3+all apps need). Do a normal install with all the currents
apps used or will be used by the customer and tar.bz2 it ;)

> 
> On the technical side what I am currently doing is taking a normal
> setup, cleaning up distfiles, /usr/src, /tmp, /home, creating a new
> usser without any files of my own ;)
> cleaning out all my passwords of /etc.
> partimageing the partition, and dd'ing grub and sfdisking the partition table.
> Then playing back the images on the HDs I want to put into the devices later.
> 
> Regards,
> Stefan
> 
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