OEM installer

On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 02:52:45PM +0200, Thomas Schneller wrote:
> I just did some testing with the OEM installer:
> 
> http://loktarogar.blogspot.com/2005/10/using-ubuntu-510-oem-mode.html
> 
> worked fine so far. But some questions:
> 
> during installation it asks for a password. What is that good for?

It's the password for the 'oem' user which is created temporarily after
the installation to allow you to customise the system.

> after installation is finished there is a option to run a hardware checker. I 
> did that and found for example, sound was not playing. But after I booted up 
> again and created a user account sound was ok. A bug?

  https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17741

> Also missing is a option for some branding. Change wallpaper and stuff like 
> that. I am able to do any testing as I am working in a testlab with access to 
> various laoptops.

This facility is not supposed to be provided by the installer; the
intent is that you should log in as 'oem', change whatever defaults you
want to change, and then (duplicate the system and) ship to the end
user.

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]