iMac network hardware

[John]

Colin Watson wrote:

>On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 01:49:30PM +0000, John wrote:
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>>Colin Watson wrote:
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>>>Sadly partman-auto is not currently very flexible at all in this
>>>regard, and it would take substantial work to make it so. It can vary
>>>the layouts by architecture and subarchitecture, and that's about it.
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>>I've just been reading up on preseeding since some (Dave I think) gave 
>>me the link. I don't know how it works internally, but I wonder whether 
>>something could run before partman-auto and preseed it with information 
>>it can use?
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>Theoretically yes, although I don't think preseeding is the appropriate
>hammer for this particular nail. That would require the user to set up a
>customized CD or a URL with a preseed file for their particular
>computer, rather than having it Just Work.
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I was thinking of it as a vendor-supplied Crude Hack:-) Not something 
for the user to do.

>Note, by the way, that Warty doesn't have full preseeding support, since
>it was added to debian-installer well after we froze and there wasn't
>time to backport the many small changes all over the installer code that
>were involved in making it work properly. It will end up in Hoary more
>or less automatically when we do the big merge from unstable.
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I noticed that it got implemented after I was asking about doing some of 
those same things, and you told me how to specify the proxy. Some of my 
extensions to that idea worked, some didn't and I offended pxelinux with 
too-long lines.