Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-12-02 Thread Frans Pop
Sorry for late reply, still working through backlog... CC'ing because of that. On Thursday 23 November 2006 22:32, David Härdeman wrote: > >I think we have two options: > > > >1) Default to method "regular" > >If partman-auto/disk=/dev/* and partman-auto/method is not set, then > >default partman-

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-23 Thread David Härdeman
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 02:48:13PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Friday 17 November 2006 11:28, David Härdeman wrote: On Fri, November 17, 2006 10:21, Frans Pop said: > Because the method is not a question as such when using preseeding. > We should handle the situation where partman-auto/disk is pr

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-23 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 17 November 2006 13:36, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > Frans Pop wrote: >> That is probably not supported. >> Please see the example in the development version of the manual: >>http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/apbs04.html#preseed-partman > > Why not? The technical reason is probab

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-23 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 17 November 2006 11:28, David Härdeman wrote: > On Fri, November 17, 2006 10:21, Frans Pop said: > > Because the method is not a question as such when using preseeding. > > We should handle the situation where partman-auto/disk is preseeded > > but partman-auto/method is not more graceful

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-17 Thread Olaf van der Spek
Frans Pop wrote: On Friday 17 November 2006 13:36, you wrote: Why not? A similar entry is shown in lines 3 and 4 of that manual. Only for using available free space, not for formatting an entire disk. You're right, I just copy/pasted that from running the installer manually and it seems to

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-17 Thread Olaf van der Spek
Frans Pop wrote: On Friday 17 November 2006 12:59, Olaf van der Spek wrote: I did have "d-ipartman-auto/init_automatically_partition select Guided - use entire disk" That is probably not supported. Please see the example in the development version of the manual: http://d-i.alioth.d

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 17 November 2006 13:36, you wrote: > Why not? > A similar entry is shown in lines 3 and 4 of that manual. Only for using available free space, not for formatting an entire disk. pgpLxPWVwP6bX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 17 November 2006 12:59, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > I did have "d-i partman-auto/init_automatically_partition select > Guided > - use entire disk" That is probably not supported. Please see the example in the development version of the manual: http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/ma

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-17 Thread Olaf van der Spek
Frans Pop wrote: reassign 398333 partman-auto severity 398333 important retitle 398333 preseeding: strange behavior when disk preseeded but method not thanks On Friday 17 November 2006 09:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your recipies are missing the "partman-auto/method" entry which you need in

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-17 Thread Olaf van der Spek
David Härdeman wrote: On Fri, November 17, 2006 9:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: David Härdeman wrote: Your recipies are missing the "partman-auto/method" entry which you need in addition to "partman-auto/disk" (and forget what I said about "partman-auto/select_disk"). I'll try that one. But why

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-17 Thread Frans Pop
retitle 398333 preseeding: strange behavior when disk preseeded but method not thanks Let's not use the same BR for different issues... On Friday 17 November 2006 11:21, David Härdeman wrote: > > thx for the information. but in this case the preseed.conf from > > http://www.debian.org/releases/te

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-17 Thread David Härdeman
On Fri, November 17, 2006 10:21, Frans Pop said: > On Friday 17 November 2006 09:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> But why does it only ask the disk question and not the method question >> if you forget both? > > Because the method is not a question as such when using preseeding. > We should handle t

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-17 Thread David Härdeman
retitle 398333 partman-auto/method not mentioned in example-preseed.txt thanks On Fri, November 17, 2006 9:38, Dennis.Hoppe said: > Hi David, > > thx for the information. but in this case the preseed.conf from > http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/example-preseed.txt is obsolete. Yes, that sho

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-17 Thread David Härdeman
On Fri, November 17, 2006 9:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > David Härdeman wrote: >> Your recipies are missing the "partman-auto/method" entry which you need >> in addition to "partman-auto/disk" (and forget what I said about >> "partman-auto/select_disk"). > > I'll try that one. > But why does it on

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-17 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 398333 partman-auto severity 398333 important retitle 398333 preseeding: strange behavior when disk preseeded but method not thanks On Friday 17 November 2006 09:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Your recipies are missing the "partman-auto/method" entry which you > > need in addition to "

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-17 Thread ovdspek
> On Thu, November 16, 2006 20:54, Olaf van der Spek said: >> David Härdeman wrote: >>> On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 07:50:11PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: Olaf van der Spek wrote: > David Härdeman wrote: >> Dennis, Olaf...could you try changing the "partman-auto/disk" entry >> to >

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-17 Thread David Härdeman
On Thu, November 16, 2006 20:54, Olaf van der Spek said: > David Härdeman wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 07:50:11PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: >>> Olaf van der Spek wrote: David Härdeman wrote: > Dennis, Olaf...could you try changing the "partman-auto/disk" entry > to > "pa

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-17 Thread David Härdeman
On Thu, November 16, 2006 20:54, Olaf van der Spek said: > David Härdeman wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 07:50:11PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: >>> >>> CPU usage appears to be 100%, so I suspect an infinite loop. >> >> Could you change to VT2 (alt + f2) while its in this loop, run "ps ax" >>

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-16 Thread Geert Stappers
Op 16-11-2006 om 09:38 schreef Olaf van der Spek: > Geert Stappers wrote: > > > >Attached is a disk recipe that I used about a year ago. > >It allowed me to do a complete automatic install. a Hands free install > >I'm curious if it still works. > > Where in the recipe do you choose the disc?

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-16 Thread Joey Hess
Olaf van der Spek wrote: > It'd be nice if there was a way to tell the installer to automatically > choose a disk, especially in single-disk systems. d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/discs/disc0/disc d-i partman-auto/method string regular Works fine for me. -- see shy jo s

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-16 Thread Olaf van der Spek
David Härdeman wrote: On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 07:50:11PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: Olaf van der Spek wrote: David Härdeman wrote: Dennis, Olaf...could you try changing the "partman-auto/disk" entry to "partman-auto/select_disk" in your preseed files and see if that fixes things After a

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-16 Thread David Härdeman
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 07:50:11PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: Olaf van der Spek wrote: David Härdeman wrote: Dennis, Olaf...could you try changing the "partman-auto/disk" entry to "partman-auto/select_disk" in your preseed files and see if that fixes things After adding that line "d-i

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-16 Thread Olaf van der Spek
Olaf van der Spek wrote: David Härdeman wrote: Dennis Hoppe said: 1. debian installer asks at which harddisk he should install debian etch. but i have only one harddisk at my server. ... d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/discs/disc0/disc On Wed, November 15, 2006 17:18, Olaf van der Spek sai

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-16 Thread Olaf van der Spek
David Härdeman wrote: Dennis Hoppe said: 1. debian installer asks at which harddisk he should install debian etch. but i have only one harddisk at my server. ... d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/discs/disc0/disc On Wed, November 15, 2006 17:18, Olaf van der Spek said: I've got the same probl

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-16 Thread David Härdeman
Dennis Hoppe said: > 1. debian installer asks at which harddisk he should install debian etch. > but i have only one harddisk at my server. >... > d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/discs/disc0/disc On Wed, November 15, 2006 17:18, Olaf van der Spek said: > I've got the same problem. Dennis, Olaf.

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-16 Thread Olaf van der Spek
Geert Stappers wrote: Op 15-11-2006 om 17:18 schreef Olaf van der Spek: Hi, I've got the same problem. It'd be nice if there was a way to tell the installer to automatically choose a disk, especially in single-disk systems. Attached is a disk recipe that I used about a year ago. It allowed

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-15 Thread Geert Stappers
Op 15-11-2006 om 17:18 schreef Olaf van der Spek: > Hi, > > I've got the same problem. > > It'd be nice if there was a way to tell the installer to automatically > choose a disk, especially in single-disk systems. Attached is a disk recipe that I used about a year ago. It allowed me to do a com

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-15 Thread Olaf van der Spek
Hi, I've got the same problem. It'd be nice if there was a way to tell the installer to automatically choose a disk, especially in single-disk systems. -- Olaf van der Spek http://xccu.sf.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EM