> On Monday 20 October 2008, Durk Strooisma wrote: >> With some (correct) preseed files, Debian Installer fails at the >> "Download debconf preconfiguration file" step, with the message: > > The file is not correct as you're using line continuation _within_ the > value field. That is *only* allowed for the partition scheme as partman > will ignore extra whitespace, but is not supported for other types of > questions. > > Cheers, > FJP
Okay.. alright. This explanation seems different from what I've read in the D-I documentation: http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/apbs03.html "A line can be split into multiple lines by appending a backslash (\) as the line continuation character. A good place to split a line is after the question name; a bad place is between type and value." Splitting up a value is not mentioned here, nor as good place, nor as bad place. I guess this should be listed as bad practise as well, to prevent this usage. Anyhow, thanks for the information! This explains the strange behaviour. Durk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
