Tom, Thank you for your response.
> 1) You're setting yourself for a problem if you use > "debconf-get-selections --installer" to create a > preseed file against the recommendations of the > d-i developers and you shouldn't use > "debconf-get-selections". I would like to understand the reason. > 2) There's a wheezy example [a]. I haven't checked > what differences there are, if any, between it and > the squeeze one. > a. http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/example-preseed.txt It 'looks' better but I don't know much about the content. > 3) You'll only have the packages installed by d-i listed in > "debconf-get-selections --installer". "dpkg --get-selections" > on the old box will list your current packages. I did not see much difference between the two output files (with and without --installer) other than specifc content. Is there a way to use the output of "dpkg --get-selections" to automate the new configuration? > 4) You won't have You can use "list-devices disk", > "list-devices partition", shell commands, and > "debconf-set" ";-separated" in "d-i partman/early_command string" > to select a specific disk. This will take some exersizing to figure out the meaning. ray -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120908081554.1753ead7c2b35a7d15c5b99498690bcc.8e974a3f6e....@email11.secureserver.net
