Re: Debian-installer export custom variable

2012-12-22 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sat 22 Dec 2012 at 11:17:00 +, Philip Hands wrote: > Brian Potkin writes: > > > > To illustrate this, here are some examples that can be used > > at the boot prompt: . . . . > > All three examples which follow begin with "auto". So I typed > > > >auto url=file:///mnt/./preseed

Re: Debian-installer export custom variable

2012-12-22 Thread Philip Hands
Brian Potkin writes: > On Thu 20 Dec 2012 at 21:13:49 +, Philip Hands wrote: > >> Brian Potkin writes: >> >> > Now "auto=true url=" is surely “auto” mode? Except using something like >> > >> >auto url=file:///mnt/./preseed.cfg >> > >> > does not delay the locale and keymap questions. Th

Re: Debian-installer export custom variable

2012-12-21 Thread Brian Potkin
On Thu 20 Dec 2012 at 21:13:49 +, Philip Hands wrote: > Brian Potkin writes: > > > Now "auto=true url=" is surely “auto” mode? Except using something like > > > >auto url=file:///mnt/./preseed.cfg > > > > does not delay the locale and keymap questions. This is either a bug in > > the doc

Re: Debian-installer export custom variable

2012-12-20 Thread Philip Hands
Brian Potkin writes: > On Wed 19 Dec 2012 at 14:59:15 +, Brian Potkin wrote: > >> probably summarises the situation best. Would it please be possible to >> consider changing the "auto url=" lines to "auto=true url=" or to accept >> a patch doing so. > > Someone should say "no" to this request

Re: Debian-installer export custom variable

2012-12-20 Thread Brian Potkin
On Wed 19 Dec 2012 at 14:59:15 +, Brian Potkin wrote: > probably summarises the situation best. Would it please be possible to > consider changing the "auto url=" lines to "auto=true url=" or to accept > a patch doing so. Someone should say "no" to this request because, no matter the confusio

Re: Debian-installer export custom variable

2012-12-19 Thread Brian Potkin
On Thu 13 Dec 2012 at 20:39:17 +, Philip Hands wrote: > P.S. It's about time I updated my d-i stuff for wheezy, so feel free to > hassle me about things that don't work (patches appreciated :-) The page at http://hands.com/d-i/ is linked to from http://d-i.debian.org/manual/en.i386/a

Re: Debian-installer export custom variable

2012-12-13 Thread Philip Hands
Leonid Shadevsky writes: > Hi, I want to install Debian on several machines via preseeding, and have a > question about automating of this process: > > Is it possible to define my own variable for example NUM=01 and use it for > generating hostname? > > i.e in preseed.cfg: > d-inetcfg/get_h

Debian-installer export custom variable

2012-12-12 Thread Leonid Shadevsky
Hi, I want to install Debian on several machines via preseeding, and have a question about automating of this process: Is it possible to define my own variable for example NUM=01 and use it for generating hostname? i.e in preseed.cfg: d-inetcfg/get_hostname string host$NUM or in kerne