On 28/07/2024 at 23:50, Charles Curley wrote:
When I go to load the debconf file, the installer doesn't find it. I
then go to a console and manually mount the USB stick on /media. I can
then ls the stick, more the preseed file, etc. When I then go back to
the installer, it still cannot find the preseed file, and the USB stick
has been unmounted.
/media being unmounted suggests that the relevant code in
debian-installer-utils/fetch-url-methods/file was run.
This has worked in the past.
With the same preseed.cfg file ?
I boot from the help screen with the command line:
expert auto file=/media/preseed.cfg
I notice that the error message indicates that the installer failed to
process "file:///media/preseed.cfg" (note the three slashes).
"file://" is the URL scheme and "/media/preseed.cfg" is the pathname.
AFAICS if the file was not found, the message would say "the file could
not be retrieved", not "the installer failed to process the file" which
suggests the file may be corrupted.
Did you check the installer logs in tty4 or /var/log/syslog ?
