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On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 23:33:57 +0200 |
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Stefan Schweizer <genstef@g.o> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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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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what kind of hardware and his goal ? |
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what kind of users ? |
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here are the most important questions. For me, it will be a must to create |
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a "stage4" (stage3+all apps need). Do a normal install with all the currents |
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apps used or will be used by the customer and tar.bz2 it ;) |
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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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> Regards, |
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> Stefan |
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