Bug#247484: d-i and ntpdate

2005-07-26 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: > Running ntpdate once during install should also be optional. Lots of > people install Debian as a second OS and would not like d-i to mess with > their hardware clock. I think we can use ntpdate to get the offset it will change the clock by, and it it's large prompt the user t

Bug#247484: d-i and ntpdate

2005-07-26 Thread Geert Stappers
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 03:22:34PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > I'm considering having d-i run ntpdate as part of the install process. I > can see two ways to do this; d-i could just install ntpdate onto the > target system, which would make it sync the clock at install time (and > again at bootup I t

Bug#247484: d-i and ntpdate

2005-07-25 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 25 July 2005 21:22, Joey Hess wrote: > I welcome thoughts of suggestions on this matter.. Running ntpdate once during install should also be optional. Lots of people install Debian as a second OS and would not like d-i to mess with their hardware clock. Running ntpdate also assumes qu

Bug#247484: d-i and ntpdate

2005-07-25 Thread Joey Hess
I'm considering having d-i run ntpdate as part of the install process. I can see two ways to do this; d-i could just install ntpdate onto the target system, which would make it sync the clock at install time (and again at bootup I think). Or we could have a small ntpdate binary in a udeb that d-i r