On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 2:02 PM, keshav prabhakar <kes...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks for responding. > >> When you define "interface=eth1" in your "append" statement, the >> entire installation's meant to be done via this NIC. I doubt that you >> can switch the NICs around via your preseed file as you're trying to >> do - as is evidenced by the fact that d-i tries to contact debian.org >> via your internal NIC. > > I wasn't really trying to switch the NICs but just wanted to configure eth0 > with an IP, gateway etc. so that when the installation is complete, I would > be able to ssh to it from my management network. Anyway, I commented out the > that line in preseed.cfg so there's no confusion: > > #d-i netcfg/choose_interface select eth0 > > and continue having these lines to use my internal server as the mirror: > > d-i mirror/protocol string http > d-i mirror/http/hostname string 192.168.1.12 > d-i mirror/http/directory string /Debian-6.0.7-amd64/debian/ > > well, it just tries to connect to ftp.us.debian.org anyway. >> >> Perhaps you can add "d-i netcfg/choose_interface seen false" then "d-i >> netcfg/choose_interface select eth0" to your preseed file to switch >> the NICs. I've never used "<anything> seen false" so this might not be >> the correct use for it. AFAIK, it's used for you to be prompted for >> that value not to reset it in order to pass it through the same >> preseed file. > > I have disconnected eth0 for now and removed it from preseed.cfg so I guess > this shouldn't matter (?) >> >> You might also want to add "DEBCONF_DEBUG=5" to the "append" line to >> get more information about the failure but the latter's cause seems >> quite clear nonetheless. >> > added it and saw that it infact is trying to connect to ftp.us.debian.org. I > have no idea where it is getting it from: > > debconf: --> GET mirror/http/hostname > debconf: <-- 0 ftp.us.debian.org > > (I guess '0' indicates it couldn't find a preseed value and falling back to > using default, which is ftp.us.debian.org?) > > Thanks again for your time!
You're welcome. Back to square one... Can you wget your preseed file from a d-i console? -- 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/CAOdo=swy_owaiskunm9ji+y9e7fv9nmyrft0yadmasd71ox...@mail.gmail.com
