On Nov 10, 2014 11:34 AM, "Michael Biebl" <bi...@debian.org> wrote: > > Am 10.11.2014 um 17:26 schrieb Patrick Bartek: > > On Mon, 10 Nov 2014, Michael Biebl wrote: > > >> You can use pre-seeding and run > >> > >> preseed/late_command="in-target apt-get install -y sysvinit-core" > >> > >> in the debian-installer. While that does indeed first install > >> systemd-sysv, it's directly replaced again during system installation > >> and doesn't require you to boot with systemd as PID 1. > >> So it might be pretty close to what you're looking for. > > > > > > Thanks. But wouldn't it be nice if as an option, you could just pick > > which init you wanted in the installer. It would make things so much > > easier. Too late to implement this, I suppose. Maybe, in the next > > release? > > Most users simply don't care and don't want to be bothered with this. > It's not like we prompt the user whether he wants to use grub or isolinux. > If we added an explicit switch, this would have to be in > expert-install-mode only imo. I can't speak for the d-i people, but > since we entered freeze, I guess it's likely to late to add that for jessie. > Especially, as already mentioned, you do already have a mechanism via > preseed/late_command. >
Not sure whether this was deb or slack, but I do remember a prompt of grub vs lilo for a while (also the choice of password hash was there for a while too). Ie, it wouldn't be precedented.
