Brian wrote:
On Thu 17 Jan 2013 at 12:42:18 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
AMEN! Preach it Brother (errrr Sister ;)
It is already on my ToDo list. But first I have to learn the
material.
In this case my definition of "useable" would be quite generous -
just about any example referencing a templates file of a udeb. I
By one of the people heavily involved in developing the preseeding
framework:
http://www.fifi.org/doc/debconf-doc/tutorial.html
I think I'm going to have to spend some time with its second
paragraph. I see some loose ends coming together.
You read the Guide and discover that lines in the preconfiguration file
can be of the form
d-i netcfg/hostname string somehost
You see they all start with d-i. Then a package name and something from
a debconf templates file, After that it is a matter of seeing how it
turns out when you experiment.
You are doing something 99% of people who install Debian never do,
Similar statements have been made about me for over a
half-century.
so
having to put in some effort would be understandable. And having to ask
about how to proceed (preferably without the value judgements) would not
be unexpected.
For any offense, I apologize.
On an engineering co-op assignment I discovered how
difficult it is to write instructions useable by someone
with even a slightly different background.
The installer is built from udeb files. What is in them is a primary
source of information. If you are not consulting them in your project
you are making things difficult for yourself.
To mangle a metaphor, I was lost in the veining of oak
leaves when I should have been looking at a maple forest the
next county over.
P.S. I conjured the 99% figure out of thin air.
I would probably have added some more 9's ;}
Thank you.
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