On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 13:28:43 +0100, KatolaZ wrote in message
<20181216122843.2lg34abliienaori@???>:

> On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 07:08:10AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote:
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> > > > g4sra via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Media partitioning, formatting
> > > > > Configure mountpoints
> > > > > Install Bootloader
> > > > > Install Kernel, Modules & Firmware
> > > > > Install Shell & package management software
> > > > > Configure console
> > > > > Configure network
> > > > > Boot
> > > > >
> > > > > Discuss...
>
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> >
> > I'm not sure how minimal your preinstall would be, but what I've
> > found difficult in the old days was finding the right device
> > drivers, figuring out which packages to install to get them, enough
> > network configuration to be able to download them, and, in the
> > *really* old days, guessing the monitor geometry I need to get X to
> > work.
> >
> > It was annoying to have to have to figure these thing out after
> > install time whem the installer had already found answers that
> > worked for it.
>
> :D
>
> You see: in just two emails we have come from a *minimal* base
> installation (a shell with a kernel, a bootloader, and a working
> dpkg/apt) to a fully-functioning network server (an ssh server with
> configurable keys!)

..you may have missed my installer ssh server purpose: a *minimal*
base installation made up by a shell with a kernel, a bootloader,
a working dpkg/apt and a ssh server, ready for stage 2: customise
the installed OS to purpose.

--
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
Scenarios always come in sets of three:
best case, worst case, and just in case.