I appreciate the help, Geert. I am trying to understand how this all fits together. When I do a manual installation, which partitioning tool am I using? Is it partman? If it is, how come certain features seem to be available to manual installation but not to preseeding, such as using existing partitions and deciding whether a partition goes at the beginning or at the end of the disk regardless of order? In a project I am involved in, disks are required to be partitioned such that partition #1 - /dev/hda1 - is always reserved for special use and covers most of the disk. The rest of the disk contains standard partitions, such as /, swap, etc. If / - which contains /boot - goes after partition #1, the system is unbootable, because /boot is too far into the disk. I was able to nicely take care of this in manual installation by adding the reserved partition #1 first but selecting to locate it at the end of the disk and then adding the standard partitions. I understand that this is kind of a special installation scenario, but I was glad to be able to smoothly do it in d-i and was hoping to be able to continue to use d-i in automated installations. P.S. What is meant by 'broken preseed/early_command'? Youssef Eldakar Bibliotheca Alexandrina
________________________________ From: Geert Stappers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 5/26/2006 6:45 PM To: debian-boot@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: partman and Existing Partitions On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 05:43:59PM +0300, Youssef Eldakar wrote: > Suppose I do the following: > [ broken preseed/early_command ] > > How do I tell partman to format and use, for instance, /dev/hda5 for /, > /dev/hda6 for swap, /dev/hda7 for /usr, etc.? Before doing that, has bug #368741 be fixed. (see http://bugs.debian.org/368741 for details) > P.S. Where do I look for documentation on a package's debconf parameters? The templates file in the Debian directory. e.g.: for package 'foo', it will be the debian/foo.templates > Youssef Eldakar > Bibliotheca Alexandrina Cheers Geert Stappers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
