On Thursday 22 April 2010, Ben DJ wrote: > Could you, perhaps, expound a bit more ? As I'd admitted up-front <-- > "Debain noob".
I did not mean for you to use the 'BOOT_DEBUG=3' option. What I meant is that, when you get "dropped into the manual installer", to use the <go back> option to go to the main menu and then select the "Start a debug shell" option and then, using regular *nix commands, check the syslog and the network connection etc. to find out why the preseed file wasn't being loaded. But I've looked a bit more at your boot command and preseed file and what you are currently trying to do is never going to work. With what you have now the installer is not even getting close to the point where it would attempt to load the preseed file... You are expecting the installer to read a preseed file over a network connection before you have even configured the network connection. Your boot command does not contain any info needed to configure the network for the guest. The preseed file does, but that's useless as you already need to have the network configured to read it: classic chicken and egg problem. BTW, you'd have the same problem with NFS as that also requires the network to be set up before you can use it. Please study the documentation (preseeding appendix in the installation guide) and if you need additional help please try asking on the debian-user mailing list first. debian-boot is primarily a development list. This is going to be my last contribution to this thread. Good luck, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201004221949.37958.elen...@planet.nl
