On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Tom H <tomh0...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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?
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