Debian-edu installation override files
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This package overrides all Debian debconf questions to make sure the
Debian-edu CD can be installed non-interactively.
More info is available from <URL:http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/>.
- Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>, 2002-01-06
Extracting debconf values from d-i after installation
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apt-get install debconf-utils
debconf-get-selections --installer
How to update the partman partition rules
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The partition recipes are in lib/partman/common/. there are files for
each combination of valid profile choises. the recipe file is built
from the common file, and the arch specific file. to create the
correct recipe file for arch and profile choice.
The recipe consist of min, priority, max size and the file system
type, as well as information about the file system to create. An
example: The min and max sizes are min MiB.
32 2000 10000000 ext3
$lvmok{ }
method{ format }
format{ }
use_filesystem{ }
filesystem{ ext3 }
mountpoint{ /debianedufreespace } .
The format is documented in
https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer/blob/master/doc/devel/partman-auto-recipe.txt .
The code using the recipes is in d-i subversion,
packages/packages/partman/partman-auto/reciepes.sh.
It is a good idea to make sure there is at least 20% free space on
every partition, to avoid warnings from nagios about too full
partitions in a freshly installed system. 5% is reserved for root,
and the remaining 10% is the number nagios is checking, and partman
some times create partitions smaller than the minimum size, so add 10%
extra to reduce the chance of problems caused by this. So, if 652 MiB
is used on /usr, the partition should be at least (652 * 100 / 70) =
932 MiB. It is a good idea to round up to the closest 64 MiB to take
into account the overhead in file systems and LVM.
One thing to keep in mind is that /var/ is used as storage area for
downloaded debian packages during installation of the netinst CD, and
thus need a lot more disk space during installation than after
installation.
To learn about the disk requirement for individual recipes, run the
command 'make minimum-diskreq'.
Some numbers to keep in mind. All numbers are disk space used in MiB,
collected just after installation.
Profile main-server (90edumain):
Partition amd64 DVD i386 CD i386 DVD i386 PXE
2013-07-14 2007-07-17 2013-09-26
------------------------------------------------------------------
/ 161 76 167
/boot 35 18 24
/usr 2526 535 2715
/var 387 154 449
/var/spool/squid 88 10 157
/skole/backup 35 35 69
/skole/tjener/home0 138 68 146
Profile main-server + thinclient-server (91edumain+ltsp):
Partition amd64 CD i386 CD i386 DVD amd64 PXE
2014-10-08 2013-07-14 2007-10-24 2013-07-09
-----------------------------------------------------------------
/ 285 170 80 197
/boot 29 34 18 24
/opt 8274 8209 516 8181
/skole/backup 9 6 17 35
/skole/tjener/home0 70 6 35 220
/usr 8321 8088 3051 8000
/var 662 3300 257 584
/var/opt/ltsp/swapfiles 8 10 34 72
/var/spool/squid 10 10 180
/var/log 31
/var/spool/squid 25
Profile main-server + workstation (92edumain+ws):
Partition amd64 DVD i386 CD amd64 CD
2013-07-14 2014-10-09
------------------------------------------------------
/ 170 263
/boot 35 29
/skole/backup 35 1
/skole/tjener/home0 71 60
/usr 8082 8308
/var 623 642
/var/spool/squid 84 17
Profile ltsp-server (94edultsp):
Partition amd64 PXE i386 CD
2013-09-26 2013-07-14
---------------------------------------------
/ 215 183
/boot 36 35
/opt 8307 8209
/usr 8078 7870
/var >4461 >3168
/var/opt/ltsp/swapfiles 72 11
Profile workstation (96eduwork):
Partition amd64 CD i386 CD i386 PXE
2014-10-10 2013-05-05 2014-10-14
------------------------------------------------------
/ 785 3387 515
/boot 29 23 29
/usr 8195 7748 6555
Profile standalone (98standalone):
Partition amd64 DVD i386 CD i386 DVD powerpc CD
2014-10-10 2007-07-17 2008-10-04
------------------------------------------------------------------
/ 8037 306 1676
/boot 29 14 20
/usr 2723 3894
/var 534
/home 205
Profile roaming workstation (98edustandalone):
Partition amd64 DVD i386 CD
2013-07-14
------------------------------------------
/ 7922
/boot 35
/var 596
/home 206
Profile minimal (none):
Partition amd64 PXE amd64 CD i386 CD i386 DVD
2014-10-11 2013-12-12 2014-10-09
------------------------------------------------------------------
/ 247 180 215
/boot 29 33 29
/var 215 864 236
/usr 2305 2403 2407
Testing translations
====================
To test if the line wrapping work with translations, a command
like this can be used:
COLUMNS=77 podebconf-display-po debian/po/it.po
It will simulate the terminal width available in the text mode
of debian-installer.