On Mon, 06 Dec 2004, Joey Hess wrote: > Your preseed.cfg is misformatted: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>debconf-set-selections < preseed.cfg > error: parse error on line 267: 'ent and received directly using SMTP' > zsh: exit 1 debconf-set-selections < preseed.cfg > > This appears to be a simple line wrap mistake. Note that preseed is much > less picky about this than debconf-set-selections, since it's > implemented in a much less capable language where checking everything > that debconf-set-selections does would be hard.
ooh thanks for catching that! how about belows patch to the example syslinux.cfg: Index: installer/doc/manual/en/appendix/example-preseed.xml =================================================================== --- installer/doc/manual/en/appendix/example-preseed.xml (revision 24247) +++ installer/doc/manual/en/appendix/example-preseed.xml (working copy) @@ -312,6 +312,10 @@ # debconf-get-selections --installer > file # debconf-get-selections >> file +# Debconf has much stricter validity checks. It catches errors like line +# wrap mistakes. You may want to check the validity of your syslinux.cfg: +# debconf-set-selections < syslinux.cfg + # If you like, you can include other preseed files into this one. # Any settings in those files will override pre-existing settings from this # file. More that one file can be listed, separated by spaces; all will be -- maks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
