firstboot

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 06:20:10PM +0100, Juan Jesús Ojeda Croissier wrote:
> I'm interested on knowing how the things are going with the firstboot. I
> was thinking (as we talk down there in the udu) about use the firstboot
> for the UbuntuExpress, or reuse its code. That's why ask it.

It's no longer called firstboot; I renamed it to oem-config (and
branched the arch repository accordingly).

> I was checking the current code and I saw something similar to I was
> thinking for the express, but I was wondering if the pygtk
> implementation is going to be like now is (each step in a diferente
> dialog) or in a single wizard dialog with different steps.

Unclear; I'm still heavily developing it and I don't want to commit yet
to how it will ultimately look. The architecture allows for either, in
principle.

> And also I have 2 question about this matter: 
> - Is it possible to preseed the firstboot?

Nowadays, oem-config is essentially a clever debconf frontend, so that
should be possible. However, I have trouble seeing why you'd want to
preseed it; the point of oem-config is to deliberately re-ask questions
of the end user, so if you don't want the questions to be asked then
just use the --include/--exclude options to avoid asking them!

> - can you explain to me again the diferente between the 'firstboot' and
> '/sbin/unconfigured.sh' or '/sbin/setup.sh'?

/sbin/unconfigured.sh is a hopelessly obsolete thing from boot-floppies;
as far as I can remember it more or less just fired off base-config. I
don't know what /sbin/setup.sh is but it sounds similar.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]