Re: partman-auto: preseeding a multiboot install

2013-08-27 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting John Morris (j...@zultron.com): > On the technical side, I'm well-qualified to work on partman. > Unfortunately there are other aspects that would make it hard for me to > jump in. For one, I'm already a Fedora developer with way too many > packages, ha! Also, I'm not a Debian developer.

Re: partman-auto: preseeding a multiboot install

2013-08-27 Thread John Morris
Hi Christian, On 08/27/2013 12:11 AM, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting John Morris (j...@zultron.com): > >> It is painful to overcome the learning curve of d-i, debconf and >> partman, and just about any alternate means of achieving one's goals >> should be considered. If hacking partman-auto

Re: partman-auto: preseeding a multiboot install

2013-08-27 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting John Morris (j...@zultron.com): > It is painful to overcome the learning curve of d-i, debconf and > partman, and just about any alternate means of achieving one's goals > should be considered. If hacking partman-auto and partman-auto-lvm is > really the only solution, here's what I did,

Re: partman-auto: preseeding a multiboot install

2013-08-26 Thread John Morris
On 08/20/2013 04:56 PM, John Morris wrote: > Is it possible to reuse an existing VG from partman-auto-lvm, and I'm > missing something obvious? If not, could partman scriptlets be used? It is not possible to reuse an existing VG, or even partition for that matter. The reason is that all current

partman-auto: preseeding a multiboot install

2013-08-20 Thread John Morris
Hi list, I'm trying to create an automatic install configuration for a multiboot host. It will be used on lab machines for testing LinuxCNC software built for a dozen+ distros/release/architecture combinations running on various motherboards and machine controller PCI interface cards. OSs includ