On August 31, 2004 04:33 pm, Joey Hess wrote: > I need you to put the preseed file up in some public place, give me the > real url to it, try a *single* install, tell me exactly what happens, > down to the exact wording of the error messages, and the exact content > of the logs, and let me try to replicate it.
Ok, I managed to get it working somewhat, here's what I did: 1. Install sarge using sarge-i386-businesscard.iso from today (08-31-2004). Install was done with almost entirely default selections, see full accounting of my install at http://www.wehave.net/debian-installer/preseeding-attempt-install-log.txt 2. From installed system I "apt-get install debconf-utils" since I need debconf-get-selections. Shortly afterwards I "apt-get install ssh" since I need a way to copy the debconf data off the system. 3. From installed system I run debconf-get-selections as follows: debconf-get-selections --installer > /tmp/installer.debconf debconf-get-selections > /tmp/regular.debconf 4. I copy above files to http://www.wehave.net/debian-installer/installer.debconf and http://www.wehave.net/debian-installer/regular.debconf, also I concatenate them together into the file http://www.wehave.net/debian-installer/aruba.debconf Hmmm, there are 801 lines between the 2 debconf files but only 639 are uniq, could this be the problem? Will check later ... I also tarred up base-config.* and debian-installer/ from /var/log on the installed system, this file is retrievable from http://www.wehave.net/debian-installer/install-log.tar.gz 5. Reboot system to be sure everything is still functional ... yes ---- Preseeding attempt 1 ... - boot with "linux preseed/url=http://www.wehave.net/debian-installer/aruba.debconf"; - step through all questions up until network configuration (use same answers as in initial install log), dhcp happens, I get asked to enter my hostname (again aruba automatically selected, press enter) and then d-i tells me: - line 1 (Blue letters) - "Failed to load the preconfiguration file" - following lines - "The installer failed to load the preconfiguration file from http://www.wehave.net/debian-installer/aruba.debconf. The file may be corrupt." - at this stage I saved the contents of /var/log to a floppy, the contents of that floppy are available as http://www.wehave.net/debian-installer/preseed-failure1.tar.gz - one can see that /var/log/debconf-seed is an exact copy of aruba.debconf so the URL is definitely being passed correctly and is working. ---- Preseeding attempt 2 ... I create http://www.wehave.net/debian-installer/aruba2.debconf which contains only unique lines - boot with "linux preseed/url=http://www.wehave.net/debian-installer/aruba2.debconf"; Ok, wasn't anything that silly, exact same error message (file may be corrupt), I'm not going to bother capturing logs from this attempt. ---- Just noticed that debconf-set-selections has a -c option, running that on aruba2.debconf gives me the following errors: error: parse error on line 248: 'base-config apt-setup/title title ' error: parse error on line 253: 'base-config base-config/title title ' error: parse error on line 269: 'base-config tzconfig/title title ' error: parse error on line 461: 'd-i lilo-installer/failed ' error: parse error on line 609: 'exim4-config exim4/exim4-config-title title ' error: parse error on line 637: 'tasksel tasksel/title title ' I delete the corrupt lines (since I'm not to sure what they should look like) and rerun the installer using preseed/url=http://www.wehave.net/debian-installer/aruba3.debconf Yay, progress ... On install using http://www.wehave.net/debian-installer/aruba3.debconf I see a few questions disappear, these questions were not asked: - mirror selection and proxy setup - press enter to install grub in MBR These questions were asked, I don't know if it was because of my corrupt file or because they will always be asked (I hope not the latter): - partioning questions were all still asked ... o erase Entire disk o still had to select all files in one partition o still had to select finish partitioning and write changes to disk o still had to tell it that I wanted to destroy my data On reboot, I get base-config running (as expected) but it still asks me questions. I select debconf-seed as the next step in the install process and it then jumps me to "Execute a Shell" ... I exit, no extra user was created. Log from this semi-successful install are at http://www.wehave.net/debian-installer/preseeded-install-log.tar.gz -- Fraser Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.wehave.net/ Georgetown, Ontario, Canada Debian GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
