Autorun for SD card mechanism?

[Pander]

in the first boot, also make the most default choices of all when
/media/card/post directory is found. e.g. English, Illume SHR theme,
..., next, next, next, finish ;)

Johny Tenfinger wrote:
> Hmm... Maybe there is a place for some app... "shr-firstboot" :) It
> could also replace first boot creator from e17, which isn't very
> useful on Neos...
> 
> 2009/4/8, Pander <pander at users.sourceforge.net>:
>> good idea. I already have all those files on SD but after each upgrade
>> have to install them manually, which is annoying.
>>
>> I would suggest something like:
>>
>> 1) notify user to do an opkg update and opkg upgrade first
>>
>> 2) change to post installation directory
>> cd /media/card/post
>>
>> 3) change to package directory and install all that is in there
>> cd packages
>> opkg install *.ipk *.opk
>> cd ..
>>
>> 4) override files
>> cd override
>> [[copy all files to root of system, e.g. override/etc/blabla to
>> /etc/blabla]]
>> cd ..
>>
>> 5) path files
>> cd patches
>> [[apply all patchers to root of system]]
>> cd ..
>>
>> off course documenting your changes via patches/diffs is preferred over
>> overriding, allowing improvements in other parts of the files via opkg
>> upgrade before you start.
>>
>> Johny Tenfinger wrote:
>>> Shortly: Let's write it ;)
>>>
>>> 2009/4/8, Lothar Behrens <lothar.behrens at lollisoft.de>:
>>>> There is an idea rattling in my head about the following issue:
>>>>
>>>> Given I have a micro SD card and that would have all here, what is
>>>> about a bootstrap mechanism to
>>>> post install packages that are laying on that card to be installed,
>>>> when a new image is started at first time?
>>>>
>>>> Like the autorun of a CD, this would help to ease the distro switch
>>>> but keep my usual applications that otherwise
>>>> have to be installed manually.
>>>>
>>>> This would include SSH settings, WLAN settings, look and feel, and
>>>> what ever may possible.
>>>>
>>>> What about it?
>>>>
>>>> -- | Rapid Prototyping | XSLT Codegeneration | http://www.lollisoft.de
>>>> Lothar Behrens
>>>> Heinrich-Scheufelen-Platz 2
>>>> 73252 Lenningen
>>>>
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