On Mon, 2011-04-25 at 18:27 +1200, Richard Hector wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've got a preseed file, with a partitioning recipe that I think is
> valid, but I'm having trouble getting past the partitioner with no
> interaction. Unfortunately the documentation is a bit lacking on how the
> various partman values interact.
>
> This is the partitioning section of my preseed.cfg so far:
>
> ## Partitioning ##
> d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/sda
> # d-i partman-auto/method string my-recipe
> # d-i partman-auto/choose_recipe select my-recipe
> d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe string my-recipe :: \
> 10240 10240 -1 ext4 \
> $primary{ } \
> $bootable{ } \
> method{ format } \
> format{ } \
> use_filesystem{ } \
> filesystem{ ext4 } \
> mountpoint{ / } . \
> \
> 2048 2048 2560 linux-swap \
> $primary{ } \
> method{ swap } \
> format{ } .
>
> d-i partman/confirm_write_new_label boolean true
> d-i partman/choose_partition \
> select Finish partitioning and write changes to disk
> d-i partman/confirm boolean true
>
>
> I'm testing this with lenny/amd64 at the moment, as squeeze seems unable
> to detect the qemu hard drive in my kvm environment (and lucid gets
> frowned upon here - but has more or less the same issues :-)
Actually, I think I was wrong on 2 counts:
* lucid and lenny behave differently (lucid offers to resize my
partitions; also lucid detects /dev/sda while lenny detects /dev/hda).
* both seem to ignore my recipe completely.
Any tips?
Thanks,
Richard
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