Re: Preseed install, Selection of Language/Country/Keyboard and Desktop Environment

2024-12-04 Thread Ralph Aichinger
On Wed, Dec 04, 2024 at 03:00:17PM +0100, poc...@homemail.com wrote: > I do an install to a hard drive and when I get it configured to what I > want i copy to an USB drive. > > Then any time I need to do a install I simply partition a drive, > create the filesystems mount the drive and the USB d

Re: Preseed install, Selection of Language/Country/Keyboard and Desktop Environment

2024-12-04 Thread Ralph Aichinger
Hello Michael, thanks for your reply On Wed, Dec 04, 2024 at 02:38:29PM +, Michael Kjörling wrote: > Compare https://michael.kjorling.se/debian-12-bookworm-preseed/ under > the B.4.1 heading about half way down the page. Actually right after my mail to this list I found your site by googling,

Re: Preseed install, Selection of Language/Country/Keyboard and Desktop Environment

2024-12-04 Thread Ralph Aichinger
On Wed, Dec 04, 2024 at 04:03:38PM +0100, john doe wrote: > > d-i debian-installer/locale string de_AT > > The "local" is less "flexible". > Look at [1], the first few lines > > > Similar with the menu where the desktop environment is selected. > > I want LXDE and "SSH Server". I always drop back

Re: Preseed install, Selection of Language/Country/Keyboard and Desktop Environment

2024-12-04 Thread john doe
On 12/4/24 13:35, Ralph Aichinger wrote: Hi fellow Debian Users I am currently trying to build an USB stick that does a scripted install of Debian. This works very well, and much much easier with UEFI, where you can just edit the preseed.cfg file instead of rebuilding an ISO every time you make

Re: Preseed install, Selection of Language/Country/Keyboard and Desktop Environment

2024-12-04 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 4 Dec 2024 13:35 +0100, from r...@h5.or.at (Ralph Aichinger): > But: I am stuck with getting rid of two groups of prompts: > > The first three prompts in any install are language, country and keymap > (German, Austria, German) in my case. I have googled around a bit and > included the followin

Re: Preseed install, Selection of Language/Country/Keyboard and Desktop Environment

2024-12-04 Thread pocket
> Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2024 at 7:35 AM > From: "Ralph Aichinger" > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Preseed install, Selection of Language/Country/Keyboard and Desktop > Environment > > Hi fellow Debian Users > > I am currently trying to build an USB stick that does a scrip

Re: preseed d-i disable security update

2022-05-12 Thread Tim Ye
On 2022-05-12 20:07+0200, john doe wrote: On 5/11/2022 1:51 PM, Tim Ye wrote: I would ask this question on the 'debian-boot' mailing list. Thank you I'll mail 'debian-boot'.

Re: preseed d-i disable security update

2022-05-12 Thread john doe
On 5/11/2022 1:51 PM, Tim Ye wrote: Hi, I'm trying to disable security update in a preseed based install, in the preseed file I put:     base-config apt-setup/security-updates boolean false on the 2nd line.  But it doesn't seem to work, security update is still performed during installation.

Re: Preseed Bug or User Error?

2021-03-03 Thread john doe
On 3/3/2021 11:53 PM, Charles Curley wrote: On Tue, 2 Mar 2021 18:47:16 + Brian wrote: Major improvement, thank you! I did have to answer some questions on the way through, but did get a good connection. Good. As I tried to indicate, the priority at which d-i is run affects which questio

Re: Preseed Bug or User Error?

2021-03-03 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 2 Mar 2021 18:47:16 + Brian wrote: > > Major improvement, thank you! I did have to answer some questions on > > the way through, but did get a good connection. > > Good. As I tried to indicate, the priority at which d-i is run affects > which questions are asked. Otherwise you get

Re: Preseed Bug or User Error?

2021-03-02 Thread Brian
On Tue 02 Mar 2021 at 10:45:54 -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > On Tue, 2 Mar 2021 10:25:02 + > Brian wrote: > > > I wonder if this line is sufficient? Based on what works for me at > > priority critucal: > > > > d-i netcfg/wireless_show_essids select manual > > d-i netcfg/wireless_essid stri

Re: Preseed Bug or User Error?

2021-03-02 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 2 Mar 2021 10:25:02 + Brian wrote: > I wonder if this line is sufficient? Based on what works for me at > priority critucal: > > d-i netcfg/wireless_show_essids select manual > d-i netcfg/wireless_essid string Curleynet2 > d-i netcfg/wireless_security_type select wpa > d-i netcfg/wir

Re: Preseed Bug or User Error?

2021-03-02 Thread Brian
On Mon 01 Mar 2021 at 16:27:48 -0700, Charles Curley wrote: [...] > ### Description: Wireless network type for ${iface}: > # Choose WEP/Open if the network is open or secured with WEP. > # Choose WPA/WPA2 if the network is protected with WPA/WPA2 PSK > # (Pre-Shared Key). > # d-i netcfg/wir

Re: Preseed: Expert recipe with LVM in partman-auto fails to format disk

2021-01-27 Thread Antoine Mazeas
Still stuck on this one... I would really appreciate some insight... Is what I'm trying to do possible with preseed and partman? Le 23/01/2021 à 19:15, Antoine Mazeas a écrit : As a follow-up, the following recipe (a truncated version of the original in OP) results in a wrong partitioning:

Re: Preseed: Expert recipe with LVM in partman-auto fails to format disk

2021-01-23 Thread Antoine Mazeas
As a follow-up, the following recipe (a truncated version of the original in OP) results in a wrong partitioning: d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe string \   large-varlibdocker :: \     512 512 512 ext4 $primary{ } label{ boot } method{ format } format{ } use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext4 } moun

Re: Preseed: Expert recipe with LVM in partman-auto fails to format disk

2021-01-23 Thread Antoine Mazeas
Hi Nicholas, (i'm pasting in your queries as I'm not a subscriber and you didn't cc my address in your replies) What is the meaning of the $lvmignore keyword on this entry right below? It's the only time it appears here. And it's not present in your 2nd example that does work. Accord

Re: Preseed: Expert recipe with LVM in partman-auto fails to format disk

2021-01-22 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 5:49 PM Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 4:39 PM Antoine Mazeas > wrote: > >> Dear Debian Users, >> >> For quite some time, I am failing to make partman process a custom >> expert recipe during an unattended (preseeded) installation. >> >> I am setting up a

Re: Preseed: Expert recipe with LVM in partman-auto fails to format disk

2021-01-22 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 4:39 PM Antoine Mazeas wrote: > Dear Debian Users, > > For quite some time, I am failing to make partman process a custom > expert recipe during an unattended (preseeded) installation. > > I am setting up a VM with an 8000 MB disk space (single disk) that I > want to partiti

Re: preseed ansible problem

2020-10-04 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Adding List. On Sun, Oct 4, 2020 at 7:44 PM Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > > Oct 4 08:01:44 in-target: Ign:1 cdrom://[Official Debian GNU/Linux Live >> > 10.6.0 xfce 2020-09-26T13:15] buster InRelease >> > Oct 4 08:01:44 in-target: Err:2 cdrom://[Official Debian GNU/Linux Live >> > 10.6.0 xfce

Re: preseed ansible problem

2020-10-04 Thread tomas
On Sun, Oct 04, 2020 at 02:05:58PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to run a ansible playbook [...] I know barely enough about ansible to make me dangerous... > preseed: running preseed command preseed/late_command: [...] > Oct 4 08:01:44 log-output: dpkg-divert:

Re: Preseed installation: definition of host/domain names

2019-07-31 Thread Polar Bear
Hello, progress report on the issue resolution... I have found that there are a several cases related to the issue with installation run from netboot (DHCP-PXE): Case A Requirements: New installed system should obtain hostname and domain from DHCP/DNS server during installation process without p

Re: Preseed installation: definition of host/domain names

2019-07-31 Thread Polar Bear
Hi, modifying required block of preseed file to following, Debian intaller still asks to confirm hostname and domain # Any hostname and domain names assigned from dhcp take precedence over # values set here. However, setting the values still prevents the questions # from being shown, even if valu

Re: Preseed installation: definition of host/domain names

2019-07-31 Thread Polar Bear
Hello, please find bellow an examples for "Buster" (Stretch, Jessie) https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/example-preseed.txt https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/example-preseed.txt https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/example-preseed.txt Andy Andy On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 2:39 PM Polar

Re: Preseed file and hostname not used on installed system

2019-06-12 Thread john doe
On 6/12/2019 1:38 PM, Brian wrote: > On Wed 12 Jun 2019 at 11:12:45 +0200, john doe wrote: > >> On 6/11/2019 7:44 PM, Brian wrote: >>> On Tue 11 Jun 2019 at 18:25:47 +0200, john doe wrote: >>> On 6/10/2019 8:24 PM, john doe wrote: > Hi, I'm installing Debian Stretch using a preseed file, t

Re: Preseed file and hostname not used on installed system

2019-06-12 Thread Brian
On Wed 12 Jun 2019 at 11:12:45 +0200, john doe wrote: > On 6/11/2019 7:44 PM, Brian wrote: > > On Tue 11 Jun 2019 at 18:25:47 +0200, john doe wrote: > > > >> On 6/10/2019 8:24 PM, john doe wrote: > >>> Hi, I'm installing Debian Stretch using a preseed file, the preseed file > >>> is common for mul

Re: Preseed file and hostname not used on installed system

2019-06-12 Thread john doe
On 6/11/2019 7:44 PM, Brian wrote: > On Tue 11 Jun 2019 at 18:25:47 +0200, john doe wrote: > >> On 6/10/2019 8:24 PM, john doe wrote: >>> Hi, I'm installing Debian Stretch using a preseed file, the preseed file >>> is common for multiple hosts with the exception of the hostname. >>> >>> boot: auto

Re: Preseed file and hostname not used on installed system

2019-06-11 Thread Curt
On 2019-06-11, john doe wrote: > > In other words, how can I set the hostname while using a preseed file > loaded with 'auto url=server'. > > Any input is welcome. Maybe this bug report (patch from canonical at bottom) will be of help (although the patch checks for netcfg/hostname in the preseed

Re: Preseed file and hostname not used on installed system

2019-06-11 Thread Brian
On Tue 11 Jun 2019 at 18:25:47 +0200, john doe wrote: > On 6/10/2019 8:24 PM, john doe wrote: > > Hi, I'm installing Debian Stretch using a preseed file, the preseed file > > is common for multiple hosts with the exception of the hostname. > > > > boot: auto hostname=try domain=example.com ... > >

Re: Preseed file and hostname not used on installed system

2019-06-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
bian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Preseed file and hostname not used on installed system > Resent-Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 16:26:06 + (UTC) > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > On 6/10/2019 8:24 PM, john doe wrote: > > Hi, I'm installing Debian Stretch using a pr

Re: Preseed file and hostname not used on installed system

2019-06-11 Thread john doe
On 6/10/2019 8:24 PM, john doe wrote: > Hi, I'm installing Debian Stretch using a preseed file, the preseed file > is common for multiple hosts with the exception of the hostname. > > boot: auto hostname=try domain=example.com ... > url=tftp://hostname/preseed.cfg > > The host name specified is not

Re: preseed install on bond link with LACP (802.3ad)

2016-04-26 Thread Sven Hartge
ML mail wrote: > I would like to preseed a Debian jessie installation over a bond0 > interface with LACP but my problem is that the installer by itself > does not support bonding out of the box. My idea and workaround would > be to use the early_command preseed parameter to first install the > if

Re: [Preseed] Partman expert recipe Error

2014-12-12 Thread claude juif
2014-12-12 2:58 GMT+01:00 Bob Proulx : > claude juif wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > I've read this doc > > http://ftp.dc.volia.com/pub/debian/preseed/partman-auto-recipe.txt > where it > > says : > > > > is the maximal size for the partition, i.e. a limit > > size such that there is no sense to

Re: [Preseed] Partman expert recipe Error

2014-12-11 Thread Bob Proulx
claude juif wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > I've read this doc > http://ftp.dc.volia.com/pub/debian/preseed/partman-auto-recipe.txt where it > says : > > is the maximal size for the partition, i.e. a limit > size such that there is no sense to make this partition larger. > > The special value "-1"

Re: [Preseed] Partman expert recipe Error

2014-12-11 Thread claude juif
2014-12-12 1:47 GMT+01:00 Bob Proulx : > > claude juif wrote: > > I'm stuck with partman expert_recipe for 3 days now and it's driving me > > crazy. > > The partman part of the installer is one of the more obtuse parts. > > > I've a 250GB hard drive and i try to use the following partition layout :

Re: [Preseed] Partman expert recipe Error

2014-12-11 Thread Bob Proulx
claude juif wrote: > I'm stuck with partman expert_recipe for 3 days now and it's driving me > crazy. The partman part of the installer is one of the more obtuse parts. > I've a 250GB hard drive and i try to use the following partition layout : > > primary partition > 512M /boot > 4096M swap >

Re: preseed from CD different to network booting

2014-09-26 Thread Iain M Conochie
Hey Brian, On 26/09/14 19:24, Brian wrote: On Fri 26 Sep 2014 at 19:02:57 +0100, Iain M Conochie wrote: I am trying to compose a real basic preseed file, that will answer all the d-i questions so that the install is completely automated. This works on a PXE boot (with dhcp) but not with a C

Re: preseed from CD different to network booting

2014-09-26 Thread Brian
On Fri 26 Sep 2014 at 19:02:57 +0100, Iain M Conochie wrote: > I am trying to compose a real basic preseed file, that will answer > all the d-i questions so that the install is completely automated. > This works on a PXE boot (with dhcp) but not with a CD boot (with > dhcp). I still get asked to

Re: preseed

2014-09-14 Thread Diogene Laerce
Hi Bob, On 09/02/2014 11:18 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Diogene Laerce wrote: >> Brian wrote: [...] > You didn't say what you were trying to do. I was trying to automatize the process with a python script but I got a broken pipe issue that I couldn't overcome. So I did a bash script that works just f

Re: preseed

2014-09-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Diogene Laerce wrote: > Brian wrote: > >gzip -d < initrd.gz | cpio --extract --verbose --make-directories > > --no-absolute-filenames > > Yes ! It did work. I still have to figure out how to fit this in the > tuto.. But It works ! You didn't say what you were trying to do. But if you are si

Re: preseed

2014-09-02 Thread Volker Wysk
Am Dienstag, 2. September 2014, 09:22:36 schrieb Diogene Laerce: > Hi, > > I try to achieve this tutorial for preseed : > > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed/EditIso > > And I can't get pass through this step : > > gzip -d < ../cd/install/2.6/initrd.gz | \ > cpio --extract --verbo

Re: preseed

2014-09-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 10:09:47AM +0200, Milosz Galazka wrote: > W dniu 02/09/2014 09:22, Diogene Laerce napisał(a): > >And I can't get pass through this step : > > > >gzip -d < ../cd/install/2.6/initrd.gz | \ > >cpio --extract --verbose --make-directories --no-absolute-filenames > > > >As I syste

Re: preseed

2014-09-02 Thread Diogene Laerce
On 09/02/2014 11:46 AM, Brian wrote: > On Tue 02 Sep 2014 at 10:49:33 +0200, Diogene Laerce wrote: > >> Thanks for your interest, as for Milosz. >> >> But I do use the right located file but the cpio command cannot end >> properly. > > Which ISO image are you using? Please try this: > > Follow

Re: preseed

2014-09-02 Thread Milosz Galazka
W dniu 02/09/2014 10:49, Diogene Laerce napisał(a): On 09/02/2014 10:19 AM, Javier Barroso wrote: Hello, On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 9:22 AM, Diogene Laerce wrote: Hi, I try to achieve this tutorial for preseed : https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed/EditIso And I can't get pass thro

Re: preseed

2014-09-02 Thread Brian
On Tue 02 Sep 2014 at 10:49:33 +0200, Diogene Laerce wrote: > Thanks for your interest, as for Milosz. > > But I do use the right located file but the cpio command cannot end > properly. Which ISO image are you using? Please try this: Follow the wiki and loopmount the ISO. Copy the initrd.gz

Re: preseed

2014-09-02 Thread Diogene Laerce
On 09/02/2014 10:19 AM, Javier Barroso wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 9:22 AM, Diogene Laerce wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I try to achieve this tutorial for preseed : >> >> https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed/EditIso >> >> And I can't get pass through this step : >> >> gzip -d <

Re: preseed

2014-09-02 Thread Milosz Galazka
W dniu 02/09/2014 09:22, Diogene Laerce napisał(a): Hi, I try to achieve this tutorial for preseed : https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed/EditIso And I can't get pass through this step : gzip -d < ../cd/install/2.6/initrd.gz | \ cpio --extract --verbose --make-directories --no-abso

Re: preseed

2014-09-02 Thread Javier Barroso
Hello, On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 9:22 AM, Diogene Laerce wrote: > Hi, > > I try to achieve this tutorial for preseed : > > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed/EditIso > > And I can't get pass through this step : > > gzip -d < ../cd/install/2.6/initrd.gz | \ > cpio --extract --verbose --m

Re: Preseed and security packages during install

2014-07-06 Thread David Majchrzak, ODERLAND Webbhotell AB
Ah. That might actually work, didn’t know about that snapshot archive. Handy. I don’t have any server to try it out on now, but I sure will if I get the chance. Thanks Brian! Kind Regards, David 6 jul 2014 kl. 20:46 skrev Brian : > On Sun 06 Jul 2014 at 20:35:38 +0200, David Majchrzak, ODERLAND

Re: Preseed and security packages during install

2014-07-06 Thread Brian
On Sun 06 Jul 2014 at 20:35:38 +0200, David Majchrzak, ODERLAND Webbhotell AB wrote: > Well, the problem with netboot preseed is that it takes a mirror - and > the official mirrors only have the latest on deb 7 and the latest on > deb 6 unless I’m mistaken. So even if I try to use a netboot from

Re: Preseed and security packages during install

2014-07-06 Thread David Majchrzak, ODERLAND Webbhotell AB
Well, the problem with netboot preseed is that it takes a mirror - and the official mirrors only have the latest on deb 7 and the latest on deb 6 unless I’m mistaken. So even if I try to use a netboot from 7.4 I will still get 7.5 through the mirror and the install will fail to find the discs.

Re: Preseed and security packages during install

2014-07-06 Thread Brian
On Sun 06 Jul 2014 at 17:20:30 +0200, David Majchrzak, ODERLAND Webbhotell AB wrote: > I was recently bit by the bug listed here: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=746642 which > resulted in my new SATA drives not being recognized during a Debian > 7.5 install. > > Is there any

RE: preseed netinstall vlan network

2013-10-30 Thread TRAN, JOHN
o configure the vlan tagging. From: Stephan Seitz [stse+deb...@fsing.rootsland.net] Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 3:24 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: preseed netinstall vlan network On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 04:08:38PM -0600, Bob Proul

Re: preseed netinstall vlan network

2013-10-30 Thread Bob Proulx
TRAN, JOHN wrote: > I apologize I wasn't clearer about the preseed but I am injecting > that into the ISO file so I don't need to get that over tftp. Good! That definitely makes that part easier. And then there are also no restrictions about what can be preseeded. > I need the network connectiv

Re: preseed netinstall vlan network

2013-10-30 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 04:08:38PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: TRAN, JOHN wrote: I'm attempting to do a preseeded netinstall using mini.iso. In general, is it possible to do a netinstall if your network is vlan tagged? A VLAN is a Virtual LAN. A Virtual LAN is a way to group hosts together onto

RE: preseed netinstall vlan network

2013-10-30 Thread TRAN, JOHN
From: Bob Proulx [b...@proulx.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 3:08 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: preseed netinstall vlan network TRAN, JOHN wrote: > I'm attempting to do a preseeded netinstall using mini.iso. In > general, is it possible t

Re: preseed netinstall vlan network

2013-10-30 Thread Bob Proulx
TRAN, JOHN wrote: > I'm attempting to do a preseeded netinstall using mini.iso. In > general, is it possible to do a netinstall if your network is vlan > tagged? A VLAN is a Virtual LAN. A Virtual LAN is a way to group hosts together onto a common network even though their locations may be physi

Re: preseed root password with !

2013-07-16 Thread Tom H
> I would like to have the root password set to "!" in order to disable > it. For that I found the following documentation in the Debian > installation guide: > > "The passwd/root-password-crypted and passwd/user-password-crypted > variables can also be preseeded with “!” as their value. In that c

Re: preseed LVM with no /boot partition on wheezy

2013-06-21 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Iain M Conochie wrote: > On Friday 21 Jun 2013 11:45:04 Tom H wrote: >> On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 21:58:36, Iain M Conochie wrote: >>> >>> I am trying to create a preseed file using LVM but with no boot >>> partition. >>> >>> When partman runs, it creates recognises the

Re: Re: Re: preseed LVM with no /boot partition on wheezy

2013-06-21 Thread Tom H
On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 12:47:21 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Fri 21 Jun 2013 at 07:12:46 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 11:06:22 +0100, Brian wrote: >>> >>> The templates file in the partman-auto-lvm udeb should tell you. >> >> You can look at the files in "/var/log/installer/cdebconf/" bef

Re: preseed LVM with no /boot partition on wheezy

2013-06-21 Thread Iain M Conochie
On Friday 21 Jun 2013 11:45:04 Tom H wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 21:58:36, Iain M Conochie wrote: > > I am trying to create a preseed file using LVM but with no boot > > partition. > > > When partman runs, it creates recognises the partitons but stops to > > ask if I > > > wish to continue

Re: Re: preseed LVM with no /boot partition on wheezy

2013-06-21 Thread Brian
On Fri 21 Jun 2013 at 07:12:46 -0400, Tom H wrote: > >> On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 11:06:22 +0100, Brian wrote: > > > > The templates file in the partman-auto-lvm udeb should tell you. > > You can look at the files in "/var/log/installer/cdebconf/" before > rummaging through udebs. :) udebs are primar

Re: Re: preseed LVM with no /boot partition on wheezy

2013-06-21 Thread Tom H
>> On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 11:06:22 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Thu 20 Jun 2013 at 21:58:36 +0100, Iain M Conochie wrote: >> >> I am trying to create a preseed file using LVM but with no boot partition. >> When partman runs, it creates recognises the partitons but stops to ask if I >> wish to continue

Re: preseed LVM with no /boot partition on wheezy

2013-06-21 Thread Tom H
On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 21:58:36, Iain M Conochie wrote: > > I am trying to create a preseed file using LVM but with no boot partition. > When partman runs, it creates recognises the partitons but stops to ask if I > wish to continue as I have no /boot partition. I answere yes (twice!) and the >

Re: preseed LVM with no /boot partition on wheezy

2013-06-21 Thread Iain M. Conochie
Thanks Brian. I will check this out and report back. Cheers Iain Brian wrote: >On Thu 20 Jun 2013 at 21:58:36 +0100, Iain M Conochie wrote: > >> I am trying to create a preseed file using LVM but with no boot >partition. >> When partman runs, it creates recognises the partitons but stops to

Re: preseed LVM with no /boot partition on wheezy

2013-06-21 Thread Brian
On Thu 20 Jun 2013 at 21:58:36 +0100, Iain M Conochie wrote: > I am trying to create a preseed file using LVM but with no boot partition. > When partman runs, it creates recognises the partitons but stops to ask if I > wish to continue as I have no /boot partition. I answere yes (twice!) and t

Re: Preseed for Wheezy - Sizes, Labels and Logicals

2012-09-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 19:03:51 -0700, ray wrote: > The partman auto instructions say that with partition 'max' parameter > set to 10, all remaining space on the disk will be used. Then > it says that there is a partition size limit of 10 due to the > 32-bit shell integer limitation.

Re: Preseed for Wheezy - Multi-disk Alternative

2012-09-17 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 15:00:54 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >>> You cannot use partman recipes to format more than one disk unless >>> you're using mdraid or lvm. >> >> You mean there's some limit that avoids the user to run additional >> commands f

Re: Preseed for Wheezy - Multi-disk Alternative

2012-09-16 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 13:11:12 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Camaleón wrote: >>> On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 23:10:52 -0700, ray wrote: >>> From what I have read, it looks like preseeding is only good for one disk. So I

Re: Preseed for Wheezy - Multi-disk Alternative

2012-09-16 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 13:11:12 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 23:10:52 -0700, ray wrote: >> >>> From what I have read, it looks like preseeding is only good for one >>> disk. So I am looking for alternatives. >> >> Where did you get th

Re: Preseed for Wheezy - Multi-disk Alternative

2012-09-16 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 23:10:52 -0700, ray wrote: > >> From what I have read, it looks like preseeding is only good for one >> disk. So I am looking for alternatives. > > Where did you get that impression? :-? > > I think preseeding should be able t

Re: Re: Preseed for Wheezy - Multi-disk Alternative

2012-09-15 Thread ray
> (...) Where did you get that impression? :-? The 'instructions' inside the installer state one disk. The examples on this website state one disk. The threads in this mail list state one disk.I have not experience but with out an example, I am not sure how to experiment. > I think preseeding sh

Re: Preseed for Wheezy - Multi-disk Alternative

2012-09-15 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 23:10:52 -0700, ray wrote: > From what I have read, it looks like preseeding is only good for one > disk. So I am looking for alternatives. (...) Where did you get that impression? :-? I think preseeding should be able to work with multiple devices and partitions, you will

Re: Preseed for Wheezy - Disk Config

2012-09-08 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 11:20 AM, wrote: > > The Wheezy example preseed file provides direction to learn more about > disk configuration: > > "The full recipe format is documented in the file > partman-auto-recipe.txt# included in the 'debian-installer' package or > available from D-I source repos

Re: Re: Preseed for Wheezy - Example Help

2012-09-08 Thread ray
Tom, Thank you for your response. > 1) You're setting yourself for a problem if you use > "debconf-get-selections --installer" to create a > preseed file against the recommendations of the > d-i developers and you shouldn't use > "debconf-get-selections". I would like to understand the reason.

Re: Preseed for Wheezy - Example Help

2012-09-08 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 11:00 PM, wrote: > > I am trying to build a preseed file from my minimum initial install of > wheezy beta 1. > I have executed: > TARGET="/inventory" > debconf-get-selections --installer > $TARGET/list_packages_installer > debconf-get-selections > $TARGET/list_packages > >

Re: Preseed not pulling in file from network with wget

2012-03-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > I've got the following snippet in a Debian preseed.cfg file: > > d-i preseed/late_command string \ > in-target mkdir --mode=700 /home/vagrant/.ssh; \ > in-target chown vagrant:vagrant /home/vagrant/.ssh; \ > in-target wget --no-check-certificate > --output-document=/home/va

Re: Preseed not pulling in file from network with wget

2012-03-27 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > > I've got the following snippet in a Debian preseed.cfg file: > > d-i preseed/late_command string \ > in-target mkdir --mode=700 /home/vagrant/.ssh; \ > in-target chown vagrant:vagrant /home/vagrant/.ssh; \ > in-target wget --no-check-certi

Re: preseed with USB-Stick and RAID on internal disks

2011-10-20 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 6:39 AM, Peter Beck wrote: > Is it possible to do an atomic _and_ raid setup at the same time ? Not AFAIK. > Or shall I just use "d-i preseed/late_command string in-target" to create > the RAID array with "mdadm --create --verbose --force --assume-clean > /dev/md0 --le

Re: Preseed and host based varaibles

2011-06-08 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 09:08:50 +0100, Wawrzek Niewodniczanski wrote: > On 06/06/11 18:34, Camaleón wrote: >> On Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:02:49 +0100, Wawrzek Niewodniczanski wrote: > [...] >> Hum... how could the installer get access to the current installed >> system to fetch the hostname from there? Le

Re: Preseed and host based varaibles

2011-06-08 Thread Wawrzek Niewodniczanski
On 06/06/11 18:34, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:02:49 +0100, Wawrzek Niewodniczanski wrote: [...] Hum... how could the installer get access to the current installed system to fetch the hostname from there? Let's imagine there are 4 linux installations in several disks or partitions...

Re: Preseed and host based varaibles

2011-06-06 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:02:49 +0100, Wawrzek Niewodniczanski wrote: > I wonder if it possible with preseed to set some response as a variable > base on a hostname. I.e. in exim4 do: > > exim4-config exim4/mailname string ($hostname) where $hostname is > pick-up from machine the OS is installed on.

Re: preseed with two hard disks

2009-11-30 Thread Eric Gerlach
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 10:46:28PM +0100, Josep M. wrote: > Hello. > > I use lenny, I do tests in Virtualbox virtual machines, I have one HD of > 40GB in these virtual machine, now I added a second hard disk in the > virtual machine, but I can't > found how to do for create a partition on this se

Re: preseed with two hard disks

2009-11-29 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Richard: On Saturday 28 November 2009 23:13:02 Richard Pijnenburg wrote: > Hi Josep, > > According to the documentation ( can't remember where exactly ) it's stated > that the preseed system can't handle 2 disks. > I'm trying to find a decent work around for it but no luck yet. > All we can do

RE: preseed with two hard disks

2009-11-28 Thread Richard Pijnenburg
. [mailto:websur...@navegants.com] Verzonden: zaterdag 28 november 2009 23:33 Aan: Richard Pijnenburg CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org Onderwerp: RE: preseed with two hard disks Hello Richard. Thanks for the answer, I will add the second hard disk to /etc/fstab in my script that is executed after install

RE: preseed with two hard disks

2009-11-28 Thread Josep M.
Hello Richard. Thanks for the answer, I will add the second hard disk to /etc/fstab in my script that is executed after install, where I install extra packages after install. Josep El sáb, 28-11-2009 a las 23:13 +0100, Richard Pijnenburg escribió: > Hi Josep, > > According to the documentation

RE: preseed with two hard disks

2009-11-28 Thread Richard Pijnenburg
Hi Josep, According to the documentation ( can't remember where exactly ) it's stated that the preseed system can't handle 2 disks. I'm trying to find a decent work around for it but no luck yet. All we can do is hope the Debian developers will fix this some day. Richard Pijnenburg -Oorspro

Re: preseed install using the business card CD

2008-09-25 Thread Tim Edwards
Tim Edwards wrote: I'm trying to do a preseeded install using the business card cd from http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ The preseed file points the installer to a local package repository available over http. However after booting off the CD I keep getting the message that the CD is not a

Re: Preseed files - is order important?

2008-08-29 Thread Chris Hiestand
As far as I know order does not matter. However, in the case that you're trying to overwrite a later value with a previous one, I'm not sure which takes precedence. Is that the question? On Aug 28, 2008, at 8:36 AM, Tim Edwards wrote: Does anyone know whether or not order is important in s

Re: preseed file

2006-03-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 01:57:15PM +0530, TAC Forums wrote: > Hi, > > We are trying to install Debian 3.1 stable, with the help of a preseed file. > > While trying to format the partitions the installer complains of " No > root Partitions defined" > Although the root partition has been defined by