d-i, FAI, quik-installer for oldworld, debconf4

2004-04-13 Thread Holger Levsen
Hello everybody, I thought, it would be a good idea to tell you my motivations participating in d-i work. One simple reason to help is to get sarge released ASAP! ;-) Then, I'm also interested in fully automatic installations with FAI (www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai or packages.d.o/fai), latel

Re: d-i, FAI, quik-installer for oldworld, debconf4

2004-04-13 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 02:46:45PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > I am a little unsure how to test it on my own: Since my only oldworld system > to develop with is a pmac4400 at the moment I have to boot if from floppies. > Then I'll usually insert the net-drivers floppy and install from a > deb

Re: d-i, FAI, quik-installer for oldworld, debconf4

2004-04-13 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, > I'd be happy to make my scripts for building a d-i + base mirror > available if anyone really wants them. They aren't pretty but they work > (or at least they used to). ... and would be happy to get them ;-) if only as doc or inspiration regards, Holger -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: d-i, FAI, quik-installer for oldworld, debconf4

2004-04-13 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 04:14:20PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > > I'd be happy to make my scripts for building a d-i + base mirror > > available if anyone really wants them. They aren't pretty but they work > > (or at least they used to). > > ... and would be happy to get them ;-) if onl

Re: d-i, FAI, quik-installer for oldworld, debconf4

2004-04-13 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Holger Levsen wrote: [snip] > When d-i is working better for my hardware (which means oldworld and newworld > installs and boots without problems) I want to take parts of d-i and > integrate them into FAI replacing some scripts FAI uses. But I'm not sure how > to do this now: (how) can I install

Re: d-i, FAI, quik-installer for oldworld, debconf4

2004-04-13 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, > > When d-i is working better for my hardware (which means oldworld and > > newworld installs and boots without problems) I want to take parts of d-i > > and integrate them into FAI replacing some scripts FAI uses. But I'm not > > sure how to do this now: (how) can I install .udebs onto a nor

Re: d-i, FAI, quik-installer for oldworld, debconf4

2004-04-13 Thread Rick Thomas
Holger Levsen wrote: > > I would like to start hacking a quik-installer (for oldworld powerpc) now, but > I am a little unsure how to test it on my own: Since my only oldworld system > to develop with is a pmac4400 at the moment I have to boot if from floppies. > Then I'll usually insert the

Re: d-i, FAI, quik-installer for oldworld, debconf4

2004-04-13 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, I wrote: > Does partman work with DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive ? Then I'll only have > to find a way... Ahh, my english ;) :( I meant: "I expect partman to work nicely with DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive so I'll only have to..." ;-) > regards, > Holger -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: d-i, FAI, quik-installer for oldworld, debconf4

2004-04-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 02:46:45PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > I would like to start hacking a quik-installer (for oldworld powerpc) now, For what it's worth, if you have trouble, I think I can manage to put together an untested quik-installer based on my experience with yaboot-installer and on

Re: d-i, FAI, quik-installer for oldworld, debconf4

2004-04-13 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > > > When d-i is working better for my hardware (which means oldworld and > > > newworld installs and boots without problems) I want to take parts of d-i > > > and integrate them into FAI replacing some scripts FAI uses. But I'm not > > > sure how to do this now: (how

Re: d-i, FAI, quik-installer for oldworld, debconf4

2004-04-13 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Colin, > For what it's worth, if you have trouble, I think I can manage to put > together an untested quik-installer based on my experience with > yaboot-installer and on the existing code in boot-floppies, and punt it > over to you for testing. I would be glad to take your offer. How do you m

Re: d-i, FAI, quik-installer for oldworld, debconf4

2004-04-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Holger Levsen wrote: > At the moment FAI is mainly used on i386, with some success stories on > sparc, ia64 and powerpc. Since FAIs design is architecture independent > (the only special requierement is nfsroot) it should be possible to extend > the support to all eleven (or 12) architectures Debi