Hi everyone: I'm working in a preseeded installation, and all goes fine except the partman preseeding.
The installer (and his preseed.cfg) should be non-dependant of the hard disk, to install it on i386 machines that recognizes the HD as hda or sda. In the preseed example that i've been working with [ http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/example-preseed.txt], --> # Note: If you want to use whatever disk is available, no matter # what its device name, comment the line above out. This will only work if # the system only has one disk. # In addition, you'll need to specify the method to use. # The presently available methods are: "regular", "lvm" and "crypto" d-i partman-auto/method string lvm It's explained that if disk explicit definition is avoided (For example -> d-i partman-auto disk string /dev/sda) and the method is correctly defined, partman should take the first available disk. In the many probes that i've done, this has never worked, and only specifying the explicit mountpoint (/dev/hda or /dev/sda) i've obtained a completely unattended installation, and i would like to avoid those explicit declarations. The preseed.cfg that i use is the next one: d-i partman-auto/init_automatically_partition \ select Guided - use entire disk # d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/sda <<-- ¿How to avoid this? d-i partman-auto/method string regular d-i partman-auto/purge_lvm_from_device boolean true d-i partman-lvm/confirm boolean true d-i partman-lvm/device_remove_lvm boolean true d-i partman-lvm/confirm boolean true d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe string ... [CUTED]... 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 doing somethig wrong? ¿Is possible to avoid the explicit sda/hda... definition in partman preseed configuration? Thank you very much: Jonbaine.
