Re: Re: network-console DEBIAN_FRONTEND?

2018-01-21 Thread Jack Bates
Thank you both for your help, I'll keep working on it and post here when I have more information or questions.

Re: Re: network-console DEBIAN_FRONTEND?

2018-01-19 Thread Jack Bates
Thanks for your help, but when I boot with DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text, it affects only the *local* console ... In other words, when I boot with "DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text modules=network-console", the local console does display the text frontend, but when I ssh in, I still get the default frontend (newt).

Bug#887784: env-preseed: env2debconf doesn't handle single quotes

2018-01-19 Thread Jack Bates
Package: env-preseed Tags: patch I booted the Debian-Installer with the following boot parameter: preseed/early_command="sed -i 'script' filename" and got the following error: > preseed: running preseed command preseed/early_command: sed -i > '"'"'script'"'"' filename > log-output: sed: unsuppor

network-console DEBIAN_FRONTEND?

2018-01-19 Thread Jack Bates
How do you set the network-console DEBIAN_FRONTEND? When I boot the installer with modules=network-console and ssh in, I get the default frontend (newt). How do I switch to DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text?

preseed_fetch for network-console/authorized_keys_url?

2018-01-16 Thread Jack Bates
What do you think about replacing wget with preseed_fetch, for downloading the authorized_keys_url in network-console? diff --git a/debian/network-console.postinst b/debian/network-console.postinst index 02496a9..203d60d 100755 --- a/debian/network-console.postinst +++ b/debian/network-console.

grub-installer and mini.iso: wrong default boot device

2016-04-27 Thread Jack Bates
grub-installer fails to get the right default boot device when I install from mini.iso. Are the checks at grub-installer lines 613:615 correct? http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/grub-installer.git/tree/grub-installer#n613 When I install from mini.iso [1] /dev/sda is my USB stick and /dev/sdb i

Install into subdirectory of existing file system?

2016-03-12 Thread Jack Bates
How do I coax Debian-Installer into installing into a subdirectory of an existing file system? /dev/sda1 is an existing ext4 file system and I want to install into an e.g. /stretch subdirectory of that file system.

Mount NTFS filesystem

2014-06-17 Thread Jack Bates
In the Debian Installer Rescue mode, how do I mount an NTFS filesystem? When I boot debian-7.5.0-amd64-i386-netinst.iso and try, I get the following error: $ mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt mount: mounting /dev/sdb1 on /mnt failed: Invalid argument I suspect mounting an NTFS filesystem has something to do

Bug#694348: Workaround

2012-12-17 Thread Jack Bates
I just had the same problem installing wheezy beta4 to and SD card in an ASUS EeeBox B202 with a "Realtek Semiconductor Corp. USB 2.0 multicard reader" I eventually worked around it by downloading the wheezy linux-image-3.2.0-4-486 package to another machine, extracting it and running: > nc

How to suppress prompt for new size of partition?

2012-11-11 Thread Jack Bates
When resizing a partition during the installation process, how can I suppress the question which asks for the new size of the partition (partman-parrtitioning/new_size), and just accept the default value? I tried adding the following to my preseed, but the installer still prompted me to enter

Re: sed append in preseed/late_command

2012-11-06 Thread Jack Bates
On 06/11/12 08:01 AM, Philip Hands wrote: Jack Bates writes: Hi, How can I use sed in preseed/late_command to insert a new line, two lines after the line which contains "", in pam_mount.conf.xml? Normally I'd use something like the following, but I think the sed append

sed append in preseed/late_command

2012-11-06 Thread Jack Bates
Hi, How can I use sed in preseed/late_command to insert a new line, two lines after the line which contains "", in pam_mount.conf.xml? Normally I'd use something like the following, but I think the sed append command must be terminated with a newline? > in-target sed -i '// { > n >