Ubuntu installer.

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 04:54:45PM +1100, Luke Yelavich wrote:
> What files need to be modified in order to change what packages are 
> installed during the installation?

/usr/lib/debootstrap/scripts/warty (etc.) for the first stage;
/usr/lib/base-config/menu/pkgsel for the second stage.

> If the installer needs to be rebuilt to do this, where can I get a
> copy of the Ubuntu installer sources?

The Ubuntu installer is made up of lots of source packages, all of which
are available in the Ubuntu archive in the normal way. I'm afraid
there's no easy way to get all of them in one shot.

However, neither changing debootstrap nor changing base-config requires
a full installer (i.e. initrd) rebuild; you just need to drop a new
.udeb or .deb onto the disk and update the various index files to match.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]