Re: timezone
Vladimir Stavrinov wrote: My be better (not sure) to add separate boot option for this. done, thanks. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~daniel-baumann/ ___ Debian-live-devel mailing list Debian-live-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel
timezone
Hi livers! Do You know how to set timezone at boot time? -- * Vladimir Stavrinov ** *** [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** * ___ Debian-live-devel mailing list Debian-live-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel
Re: timezone
Do You know how to set timezone at boot time?
It seems for now hardocded to Etc/GMT.
We could have some pseudo debconf preseeding in that place like
following patch does.
Applied to current SVN, I use it like e.g :
$ make-live --bootappend=timezone=Europe/Paris
I'm actually not really happy with that as we could go adding zillions
of new debconf
paramaters when using a preseed file with the preseed/file= keyword
seems saner.
Cheers
--
Mathieu
--- scripts/live 2007-06-28 21:38:52.0 +0200
+++ scripts/live.new 2007-06-28 21:39:34.0 +0200
@@ -194,6 +194,11 @@
export SHOWMOUNTS
;;
+ timezone=*)
+ TIMEZONE=${x#timezone=}
+ export TIMEZONE
+ ;;
+
todisk=*)
TODISK=${x#todisk=}
export TODISK
--- scripts/live-bottom/02_timezone 2007-06-28 21:38:52.0 +0200
+++ scripts/live-bottom/02_timezone.new 2007-06-28 21:39:41.0 +0200
@@ -26,6 +26,20 @@
# live-initramfs script
-cp -f /root/usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC /root/etc/localtime
+if [ -n ${TIMEZONE} ]; then
+area=$(echo ${TIMEZONE} | cut -f1 -d '/')
+zone=$(echo ${TIMEZONE} | cut -f2 -d '/')
+chroot /root debconf-communicate -fnoninteractive live-initramfs /dev/null EOF
+set tzdata/Areas $area
+set tzdata/Zones/$area $zone
+EOF
+cp -f /root/usr/share/zoneinfo/${area}/${zone} /root/etc/localtime
+else
+chroot /root debconf-communicate -fnoninteractive live-initramfs /dev/null EOF
+set tzdata/Areas Etc
+set tzdata/Zones/Etc UTC
+EOF
+cp -f /root/usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC /root/etc/localtime
+fi
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Re: timezone
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 09:51:18PM +0200, Mathieu GELI wrote: I'm actually not really happy with that as we could go adding zillions Don't agree. This is good idea to use kernel boot parameters. This is flexible way to customize environment manually at boot time, especially for pxe boot. parameters when using a preseed file with the preseed/file= keyword seems saner. This is OK too, but it is not replacement. It may be considered as main way to set parameters, while command line is alternative options. We need both methods. ** Vladimir Stavrinov ** *** [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** * http://inist.ru ** ___ Debian-live-devel mailing list Debian-live-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel
Re: timezone
Don't agree. This is good idea to use kernel boot parameters. This is flexible way to customize environment manually at boot time, especially for pxe boot. Well yes, the two mentioned way have pros and cons. I'm thinking also to have that done in live-sysvinit, i.e in late userland, we could then imagine some fancy UI that'll ask the user to configure such things, or for non-interactive boot imagine : 1) static way : preseeded file present in the rootfs (similar to actual situation) 2) dynamic : preseeded file downloaded from the network via [*] (put here your preferred protocol) I've got some code lying around partially implementing situation 2, via HTTP/GPG, and a direct application : dynamically enable winbind/Active Directory authentication for lives to be part of a Windows Domain (and transfer file in a secure way) My two cents -- Mathieu ___ Debian-live-devel mailing list Debian-live-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel
