On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 05:39:24PM +0300, Youssef Eldakar wrote: > I am trying to use preseeding in the Debian Installer in a fashion similar to > Kickstart in Anaconda. I installed a system and tried basing the preseeding > file on the output of debconf-get-selections. The problem I am running into > is that I do not see the manual partitioning I did during installation > reflected in the output of debconf-get-selections. In short, what I am hoping > to accomplish is to install a system and then tell the Debian Installer to > install other systems exactly the same way I installed this system.
As far as i know, the current partman design doesn't allow for relflecting the manual partitioning choices in debconf, so what you try to do is not (yet) possible. As a quick hack, and depending on your partitioning scheme, you can probably dd the partition block from the installed system, and dd it back with some kind of preseeding based script. I do have some libparted based tool to generate a partition table based on a basic filesystem description which could be used for this, i use it for doing mass installation of pegasos system, creating the partitions, and then imaging the disks with partimage. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
