lilo 22.1 (woody)

[Patrick Dreker]

Am Die, 2001-11-27 um 18.17 schrieb Ingo Herz:
> Hi,
> 
> gpm is installing properly now. Thanks a lot.
> 
> Now I get a complete installation of woody incl. customized kernel, XF86Config
> etc. I only have to press 2 keys - at the end of the installation the lilo
> config appears. I use newest fai and saw the thread some weeks ago
> about lilo 22.1. lilo is lilo_22.1-1_i386.deb.
> 
> Any way to get it completely unattended?
I have used dpkg to install a custom kernel onto our cluster nodes.
The cluster nodes install woody from a local mirror, and one of the last
commands the install scripts execute is:
dpkg --root=/tmp/target -i
/fai/files/packages/kernel-image-2.4.16_20011125.deb < /dev/null

The Installation of the kernel packages automatically tries to run lilo,
so before that you should have copied a valid lilo.conf to
/tmp/target/etc. Redirecting stdin from /dev/null causes the script to
take all default answers which are right _IF_ (big if!!!) there is no
kernel of the same version already in the to be installed disks. (Create
Bootdisk: No, Run lilo: yes). Tip: run this command by hand a few times
to see all interactions the script wants and how to circumvent them...

The lilo installation itself does not generate any interactive questions
here.
 
> Ingo
> 
> 
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Patrick.