Thank you, danbrwn and Vagrant. You have provided me with valuable information.
I will try to burn a CD instead, to see if my preseeding works that way. Meanwhile, does anyone reading this know where the install program mounts the CD-image (the iso file) at the point where the dialog tells the user "scanning drives for install media". This mount point would be good to know if I am going to specify a preseed file in syslinux.cfg on the USB stick. Regards, Fredrik > Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:41:07 -0800 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Simple-CDD and USB install combo: How do I use preseeding? > > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 08:41:30AM +0000, Fredrik Israelsson wrote: > > I have created a custom install CD iso image using simple-cdd. I have > > tried to configure pre-seeding by using a myprofile.preseed file. > > I have then copied the iso image onto a USB device, following the > > instructions on > > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s03.html.en, "Preparing > > Files for USB Memory Stick Booting". > > simple-cdd has only been tested with CD/DVD installation media, so i'm not > sure > the other methods will work... > > > When booting from the USB stick, the installer starts ok, scannning for > > and finding the installer iso image, but my pre-seeding seems to get lost > > on the way. > > > > Will I have to specify the pre-seed file in the syslinux.cfg on the USB > > memory stick somehow? Isn't the kernel append parameters set in the > > isolinux.cfg file in the installer iso image recognized at all? > > yes, you may have to put default.preseed on the USB stick as well. > > > What should I add to the syslinux.cfg file in order to point to the > > pre-seed file located in the installer iso image? > > you'll need to specify preseed/file=/cdrom/simple-cdd/default.preseed in > whatever relevent "append" lines for syslinux.cfg. though i'm not sure > hd-media > will mount the .iso as /cdrom, so you'll have to tweak that as appropriate. > > it needs to know to load the "simple-cdd-profiles" udeb, or your profiles will > never be acknowledged. > > good luck. > > live well, > vagrant > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > _________________________________________________________________ Kolla mailen när du är på språng - skaffa Hotmail i mobilen! http://windowslivemobile.msn.com/BrowserServiceHotmail.aspx?lang=SE-SE
