Debian-edu installation override files
======================================

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
-----------------------------------------------------

apt-get install debconf-utils
debconf-get-selections --installer

How to update the partman partition rules
=========================================

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
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/svn/debian-installer/installer/doc/devel/partman-auto-recipe.txt
and http://lml.bas.bg/~anton/partman/doc/partman-doc.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
                                  2013-07-14  2007-07-17
  ------------------------------------------------------
  /                                      161          76
  /boot                                   35          18
  /usr                                  2526         535
  /var                                   387         154
  /var/spool/squid                        88          10
  /skole/backup                           35          35
  /skole/tjener/home0                    138          68

  Profile main-server + thinclient-server (91edumain+ltsp):

  Partition            amd64 DVD     i386 CD    i386 DVD   amd64 PXE
                      2007-10-25  2013-07-14  2007-10-24  2013-07-09
  -----------------------------------------------------------------
  /                           98         170          80         197
  /boot                       19          34          18          24
  /opt                       554        8209         516        8181
  /skole/backup               35           6          17          35
  /skole/tjener/home0        173           6          35         220
  /usr                      3204        8088        3051        8000
  /var                       328        3300         257         584
  /var/opt/ltsp/swapfiles     69          10          34          72
  /var/spool/squid            10          10          10         180

  Profile main-server + workstation (92edumain+ws):

  Partition            amd64 DVD     i386 CD
                                  2013-07-14
  ------------------------------------------

  /                                      170
  /boot                                   35
  /skole/backup                           35
  /skole/tjener/home0                     71
  /usr                                  8082
  /var                                   623
  /var/spool/squid                        84

  Profile thin-client-server (94edultsp):

  Partition            amd64 DVD     i386 CD
                                  2013-07-14
  ------------------------------------------

  /                                      183
  /boot                                   35
  /opt                                  8209
  /usr                                  7870
  /var                                 >3168
  /var/opt/ltsp/swapfiles                 11

  Profile workstation (96eduwork):

  Partition            amd64 DVD     i386 CD
                                  2013-05-05
  ------------------------------------------
  /                                     3387
  /boot                                   23
  /usr                                  7748

  Profile standalone (96eduwork):

  Partition            amd64 DVD     i386 CD    i386 DVD  powerpc CD
                                  2007-07-20  2007-07-17  2008-10-04
  ------------------------------------------------------------------
  /                                      941         306        1676
  /boot                                   14          14          20
  /usr                                  2729        2723        3894

  Profile roaming workstation (98edustandalone):

  Partition            amd64 DVD     i386 CD
                                  2013-07-14
  ------------------------------------------
  /                                     7922
  /boot                                   35
  /var                                   596
  /home                                  206

  Profile minimal (none):

  Partition            amd64 DVD     i386 CD    i386 DVD
                                  2007-07-20
  ------------------------------------------------------
  /                                       76
  /boot                                   18
  /var                                   579
  /usr                                   188

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.
