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Debian Unstable
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Installing Sid
- Acquire the daily businesscard ISO.
- These won't work from time to time, especially when base packages are being upgraded (the installer will expect a version which is no longer available)
- Prepare external firmware, if necessary
- Boot the ISO, selecting an Expert install
Post-install
- Install sudo. Edit /etc/sudoers (using visudo) to allow the sudo group to run all commands without a password:
%sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL
- Add user account to sudo group
- dpkg-reconfigure debconf, set minimum priority to Low
- dpkg-reconfigure -a, reconfiguring all debconf questions
- Edit /etc/default/rcS, enabling FSCKFIX, VERBOSE, RAMRUN, RAMLOCK
- Edit /etc/default/grub, removing "quiet" from GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT
- Rerun update-grub
- Edit /etc/default/ntp, changing NTPD_OPTS to '-g -x'
- This allows the clock to be arbitrarily set once (presumably on startup), without slew delay
- Clone my home directory from https://github.com/dankamongmen/dankhome.git
- Set a color for the local machine in .pcolor
- This is based on the binary bin/color, and hooks to PS1 in .bashrc
- Install mingetty. Open /etc/inittab and convert 'getty 38400' to 'mingetty'.
- Remove info and install pinfo
- Install compiz and gdm3.
- Install libpam-ssh, and configure it
- Recently, this can be done entirely inside of debconf -- no editing of PAM configs by hand
- FIXME plenty more..
