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Stefan Schweizer posted |
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<e79639220510131433u5bf59b36r8be28c93ab576c01@××××××××××.com>, excerpted |
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below, on Thu, 13 Oct 2005 23:33:57 +0200: |
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> I want to preinstall Gentoo Linux on some devices for customers. Do |
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> you have any tips for preinstallation, any scripts? What is the |
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> correct prcedure of doing so? |
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> Anyone knows of something like a "sysprep" script for linux that will |
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> ask the costumer for user and passwort setup when he first switches |
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> on the PC? |
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> On the technical side what I am currently doing is taking a normal |
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> setup, cleaning up distfiles, /usr/src, /tmp, /home, creating a new |
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> usser without any files of my own ;) |
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> cleaning out all my passwords of /etc. |
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> partimageing the partition, and dd'ing grub and sfdisking the partition table. |
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> Then playing back the images on the HDs I want to put into the devices later. |
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This is what the catalyst application does -- allow one to make their own |
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customized LiveCD installers*, just like Gentoo does with each periodic |
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snapshot release. The ebuild is in portage, and there's a catalyst |
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specific mailing list, should you have any questions. |
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* Presumably, they don't have to be CDs or CD images, but I've never used |
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it personally and haven't chanced to see that specifically stated in |
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threads such as this that I've come across, so can't say for sure. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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