preseed files on live cd

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 06:16:24PM -0600, Carl Karsten wrote:
> Is there any point to these?

Yes.

> root at sahara:/mnt/iso # cat preseed/server.seed
> # Desktop system not installed; don't waste time and disk space copying it.
> archive-copier  archive-copier/copy     boolean false
> # Don't install anything in the second stage apart from language packs.
> base-config     base-config/package-selection   string
> # No language support packages.
> base-config     base-config/install-language-support    boolean false

That's used if you type 'server' at an Ubuntu CD's boot: prompt.

> root at sahara:/mnt/iso # cat preseed/ia64-hack.seed
> # The language support packages are broken on ia64. (Is this still true now
> # that we generate tasks from germinate output?)
> base-config     base-config/install-language-support    boolean false

That's used on ia64 CDs; it's only there on other architectures because
I'm too lazy to get rid of it for the sake of 188 bytes. :-)

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]