On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Darren Baginski <kick...@yandex.com> wrote:
>
> I've added lines below and got GPT on a empty 160GB hard drive. Thanks Tom!
> Need to understand which of them really needed.
> Will use your debugging hint for keymap selection.
>
> d-i partman-basicfilesystems/choose_label string gpt
> d-i partman-basicfilesystems/default_label string gpt
> d-i partman-partitioning/choose_label string gpt
> d-i partman-partitioning/default_label string gpt
> d-i partman/choose_label string gpt
> d-i partman/default_label string gpt
> partman-partitioning partman-partitioning/choose_label select gpt
> d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe string physics-workstation :: \
> 32 32 32 free \
> $gptonly{ } \
> $primary{ } \
> $bios_boot{ } \
> method{ biosgrub } \
> . \
> 16000 1000 16000 linux-swap \
> $gptonly{ } \
> $primary{ } \
> method{ swap } format{ } \
> . \
> 500 1000 -1 xfs \
> $gptonly{ } \
> $primary{ } \
> method{ format } format{ } \
> use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ xfs } \
> mountpoint{ / } \
> .
You're welcome. It's good to know that a gpt label can be created via
preseed. :)
What's the output of "parted -l /dev/sda" or "gdisk -l /dev/sda" after
this install?
(BTW, you don't need the backslashes in the partitioning section -
although I think that you might need it after the "::".)
