The custom settings for Calamares is in here GitHub - dmknght/calamares-settings-netinst: Netinstall configurations
I’ll merge the settings into calamares-settings-parrot as soon as it’s ready.
Differences between this and Architecture
| Calamares | Architecture | |
|---|---|---|
| Installer | Calamares | Debian’s Netinstaller |
| — | — | — |
| Live mode | Yes | No |
| — | — | — |
Encrypt /boot when use LUKS |
Yes | No (likely) |
| — | — | — |
| Fully customizable | Almost | Not really |
The NetInstaller of Calamares will provide as many packages as selectable options so users can select whatever they want for Parrot OS, even no Desktop Environment target. No systemd? It’s fine. I’m having a list (and doing the test) of systemd alternative. Meanwhile Architecture provides limited selectable options to choose Desktop Environment and some meta packages.
Calamares’s NetInstaller Limitation:
- Stable network connection is highly required
- It’s slow. It uses
debootstrapto create system. There’s no multithreading installing packages. For example: this error can happen easily
- It uses
debootstrap, therefore the are many configurations are missing during installation. For example: missing group when install a package
- Users must know what to install or the target system will be a broken system. It’s not easy to balance between “not having too many unused packages” and “install required packages that system needs”.
- Packages failed to install because of
stdinrequirement. For example: replace settings in/etc/requires user to typeYto confirm but the installer has no interactive method (trying to fix this).
