Re: Partial success - an informative crash - was [Re: First attempt to use preseeding]

2012-11-05 Thread Brian
On Mon 05 Nov 2012 at 07:49:29 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > Brian wrote: > >On Sun 04 Nov 2012 at 06:55:41 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > >>*My procedure* > >>1. Partition/format a 16 GB USB stick as single primary partition > >>formatted as ext2 using Gparted. > > > >At this stage of the in

Re: Partial success - an informative crash - was [Re: First attempt to use preseeding]

2012-11-05 Thread Richard Owlett
Brian wrote: On Sun 04 Nov 2012 at 06:55:41 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: *My procedure* 1. Partition/format a 16 GB USB stick as single primary partition formatted as ext2 using Gparted. At this stage of the installer's operation it is very happy to deal with FAT16. I'd suggest you fall in wi

Re: Partial success - an informative crash - was [Re: First attempt to use preseeding]

2012-11-04 Thread Brian
On Sun 04 Nov 2012 at 06:55:41 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > *My procedure* > 1. Partition/format a 16 GB USB stick as single primary partition > formatted as ext2 using Gparted. At this stage of the installer's operation it is very happy to deal with FAT16. I'd suggest you fall in with its wish

Partial success - an informative crash - was [Re: First attempt to use preseeding]

2012-11-04 Thread Richard Owlett
Richard Owlett wrote: Why - learn to use preseeding. Why now - I think I've found an install related bug. Using preseed.cfg would eliminate human error as cause. For simplicity and repeatability I'm installing from DVD with no network connection of any sort. The DVD is disk 1 of 8 of a commercial

Re: First attempt to use preseeding

2012-10-25 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > Tom H wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Richard Owlett >> wrote: >>> Jon Dowland wrote: On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 04:13:17PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > It appears to me that my preseed.cfg file is not being read at all

Re: First attempt to use preseeding

2012-10-25 Thread Richard Owlett
Tom H wrote: On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: Jon Dowland wrote: On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 04:13:17PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: It appears to me that my preseed.cfg file is not being read at all. OK. I don't know the nature of the problem you are trying to fix, T

Re: First attempt to use preseeding

2012-10-25 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > Jon Dowland wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 04:13:17PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: >>> It appears to me that my preseed.cfg file is not being read at all. >> >> OK. I don't know the nature of the problem you are trying to fix, > > The n

Re: First attempt to use preseeding

2012-10-25 Thread Richard Owlett
Jon Dowland wrote: On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 07:23:27AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Jon Dowland wrote: On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 04:13:17PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: It appears to me that my preseed.cfg file is not being read at all. OK. I don't know the nature of the problem you are trying

Re: First attempt to use preseeding

2012-10-25 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 07:23:27AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Jon Dowland wrote: > >On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 04:13:17PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > >>It appears to me that my preseed.cfg file is not being read at all. > > > >OK. I don't know the nature of the problem you are trying to fix, >

Re: First attempt to use preseeding

2012-10-25 Thread Richard Owlett
Jon Dowland wrote: On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 04:13:17PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: It appears to me that my preseed.cfg file is not being read at all. OK. I don't know the nature of the problem you are trying to fix, The nature of the problem is that I have found *NO NONE NADA* complete ex

Re: First attempt to use preseeding

2012-10-24 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 04:13:17PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > It appears to me that my preseed.cfg file is not being read at all. OK. I don't know the nature of the problem you are trying to fix, but could it be reproduced/triaged in a virtual machine? It might be much quicker/easier to explor

Re: First attempt to use preseeding

2012-10-21 Thread Richard Owlett
Jon Dowland wrote: In my experience, preseeding is pretty awkward. My advice: start from scratch, try to guess the right thing to put in in order to answer the first couple of questions, try it. Did those questions get answered? Then add a few more for the next few questions. Repeat. I guess

Re: First attempt to use preseeding

2012-10-21 Thread Jon Dowland
In my experience, preseeding is pretty awkward. My advice: start from scratch, try to guess the right thing to put in in order to answer the first couple of questions, try it. Did those questions get answered? Then add a few more for the next few questions. Repeat. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

First attempt to use preseeding

2012-10-21 Thread Richard Owlett
Why - learn to use preseeding. Why now - I think I've found an install related bug. Using preseed.cfg would eliminate human error as cause. For simplicity and repeatability I'm installing from DVD with no network connection of any sort. The DVD is disk 1 of 8 of a commercial copy of Debian 6.0.5