On Sat, Dec 07, 2013 at 11:54:44AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > I am aware of the options demonstrated in > http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/example-preseed.txt . > > They do not cover my case of interest. > I am experimenting with various configurations of Debian. > My procedure *REQUIRES* installing Debian to a specific partition of > of a disk already containing data and possibly other installs. >
If you have access to a spare machine, it is always worth experimenting on a machine that contains no vital information and that contains nothing that you need to keep. > I currently handle this by deleting all partitioning information fro > my preseed.cfg . > This forces manual intervention during which I specify which > partition I wish to use (for / and swap). > If the free partition you have to install on is always the same one, then you can script this with preseed. If grub will always be present on a boot partition at the start of the disk, you don't care provided that your new install will write a grub configuration that boots. > This is the only point requiring manual intervention. I would like > to eliminate it. The "partition recipe" approach is not suitable. > > Ideas? > TIA > > > > -- > 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/52a360e4.2090...@cloud85.net -- 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/20131207204122.ga4...@galactic.demon.co.uk
