On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 08:58:56AM +0100, Patrick Nomblot wrote: > Thank you for replying Rick, > > in fact, install works fine directly to compact flash with installer (it > is installed as an IDE disk). My need was simply to tell installer to > prepare also a second disk. This could also happen to get better > performances and use a separate disk for swap or /home. Doing so at > reboot is not a problem so far but doing it with installer would be great. > > Many thank's for your help, Patrick. >
Hello, I've been playing with partman-auto and preseed, aswell as automatically creating a RAID set. Because the installer I'm using (sarge) didn't provide the functionality I needed, I bypassed the entire partman and created my own script. The package you want to modify is the partman udeb (in my case located in pool/main/p/partman/partman_63_i386.udeb). You can replace the call to "partman" in postinst by your own script. Your script needs to partition the disks (/dev/discs/discX/disc), create filesystems on them and mount them in /target. Then you also need to create /etc/fstab in /target/etc/fstab. After that, the debian installer will continue without problems. I found that using sfdisk instead of parted_server is alot easier to create partitions in my script. I know this is not the preferred way, but it got the job done :) greets, -- Steven > > Rick Thomas wrote: > > >How about this: > > > >Install to the hard disk, then after the first reboot, run a script > >that copies the root partition to the compact flash and does the > >necessary magic to make it boot from the flash. You can either leave > >the root partition on the hard disk as an emergency backup, or > >reformat it as additional swap space after rebooting from the flash. > > > >It's complicated, but -- would that work? I suspect it could be > >completely automated if you need it to be. > > > >Rick > > > >On Mar 22, 2006, at 1:37 PM, Frans Pop wrote: > > > >>On Wednesday 22 March 2006 18:17, Patrick Nomblot wrote: > >> > >>>I 'm really sorry to disturb you but I have been looking for a solution > >>>to use debian installer and pressed to install debian sarge on an i386 > >>>target having two IDE target disks. I get success doing a sarge or > >>>etch preseed install on my target system but would need to put swap on > >>>a second ide disk (as the first one is in fact a compact flash disk), I > >>>do not found any example doing so with preseed, is there any > >>>possibility to do so ?. > >> > >> > >>That is currently not supported. Sorry. > >> > >>Cheers, > >>FJP > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
