[Bug 1276064] Re: Installer silently ignores preseed directives

2014-02-04 Thread Matt
Hey Colin, this is driving me absolutely crazy, and is blocking a large-scale deployment of Ubuntu. I know you know this stuff well; this is probably a no-brainer for you. Please help! Even if it's not a no-brainer, I'm happy to debug it with you and enhance d-i/kickseed (because it's a showstop

[Bug 1276064] Re: Installer silently ignores preseed directives

2014-02-04 Thread Matt
FWIW I get better results using a RedHat-style Kickstart file, with ks=http://blah, instead of a preseed file. But analogously, I cannot seem to defeat the prompt about over-writing an existing LVM configuration. Therefore I theorise this is not a problem with the pressed parser and kickstart pa

[Bug 1276064] Re: Installer silently ignores preseed directives

2014-02-04 Thread Matt
Another analogous problem with this preseed: although I attempt to enable root logins, and I attempt to defeat creation of a non-root user, and even though in desperation I have set a full name and username for the non-root user (both 'deleteme'), I am still prompted for a full name and username

[Bug 1276064] Re: Installer silently ignores preseed directives

2014-02-04 Thread Matt
This peseed contains: partman-autopartman-auto/method string lvm However, I am still prompted whether I want to use LVM on the sole usable block device (/dev/sda) in the machine, or guided partitioning, or etc. There's no indication on tty4 (or anywhere else I can see) that this directi