> On Thu, November 16, 2006 20:54, Olaf van der Spek said: >> David Härdeman wrote: >>> On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 07:50:11PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: >>>> Olaf van der Spek wrote: >>>>> David Härdeman wrote: >>>>>> Dennis, Olaf...could you try changing the "partman-auto/disk" entry >>>>>> to >>>>>> "partman-auto/select_disk" in your preseed files and see if that >>>>>> fixes >>>>>> things >>>>> >>>>> After adding that line "d-i partman-auto/select_disk select >>>>> SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 8.6 GB VMware, VMware Virtual S" the installer >>>>> gets stuck at: >>>>> Starting up the partitioner >>>>> 85% >>>>> Please wait... > > Dennis, Olaf, > > my excuses to both of you, I seem to have led you on a wild goose chase :) > > Your recipies are missing the "partman-auto/method" entry which you need > in addition to "partman-auto/disk" (and forget what I said about > "partman-auto/select_disk"). > > Thanks to JoeyH for pointing that out.
I'll try that one. But why does it only ask the disk question and not the method question if you forget both?