freakalad
June 17th, 2009, 11:11 PM
This is a pretty silly question, but hoping someone knows the answer.
The system installer (when popping in mini.iso liveCD & do the portioning & stuff) is a pretty useful & versatile tool, and I'm hoping to run it again, after the system has already been installed, to reconfigure some stuff.
From what I can gather, it consists of:
* basic kernel to get the installer OS going
* mirror & locale settings
* partitioning tool, with support for LVM, and the ability to resize a pre-existing windows partition. some variation of fdisk or cfdisk
* kernel picker: generic, server, desktop, virtual, etc. This is the juicy bit I'm after, as I may wan to change the kernel, say, from a server to generic without having to completely trash my existing installation & configs
* system task & role selector: tasksel
If tools such as `tasksel` is still available on the system, it stands to reason that the other tools are too, or are just an apt-get away
The system installer (when popping in mini.iso liveCD & do the portioning & stuff) is a pretty useful & versatile tool, and I'm hoping to run it again, after the system has already been installed, to reconfigure some stuff.
From what I can gather, it consists of:
* basic kernel to get the installer OS going
* mirror & locale settings
* partitioning tool, with support for LVM, and the ability to resize a pre-existing windows partition. some variation of fdisk or cfdisk
* kernel picker: generic, server, desktop, virtual, etc. This is the juicy bit I'm after, as I may wan to change the kernel, say, from a server to generic without having to completely trash my existing installation & configs
* system task & role selector: tasksel
If tools such as `tasksel` is still available on the system, it stands to reason that the other tools are too, or are just an apt-get away