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Sorry, no offence intended. On Thursday 22 February 2007 14:00, Andrew Leach wrote:
> Same effect, the guilded or manual partitioning screen keeps on being > displayed. Try putting a space between "stringxenserver" ....
Ah yes, a typo . Have corrected that.
Are there any problems/bugs with partman? No, using a recipe works if you do it correctly.
Then it's clearly something I'm doing wrong so let me explain what I'm using. On a usb stick I downloaded the hd-media files from here: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-i386/current/images/hd-media/ I'm using the syslinux file (ldlinux.sys) from here: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/syslinux-3.36.tar.gz<http://freshmeat.net/redir/syslinux/10177/url_zip/syslinux-3.35.zip> and I'm using the business card iso from here: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r5/i386/iso-cd/debian-31r5-i386-businesscard.iso My syslinux.cfg file looks like this: default linux label linux kernel vmlinuz append initrd=initrd.gz ramdisk_size=10240 root=/dev/rd/0 devfs=mount,dall rw languagechooser/language-name=English countrychooser/shortlist=GB console-keymaps-at/keymap=uk debconf/priority=critical prompt 0 timeout 10 I also have a conf directory where the preseed.cfg file is located. The process always stops at the [!!} Partition disk, Partitioning metho, Entire IDE1, Entire SCSI, Manually screen. Looking at the debug log I see the following: DEBUG: Menu item 'partman' selected DEBUG: configure partman, status 2 DEBUG: configure libc6, status 0 DEBUG: vitural package libc6 DEBUG: configure libparted1.6-12, status 0 DEBUG: virtual package libparted1.6-12 DEBUG: configure harddrive-detection, status (fat horizontal line which goes off the screen) DEBUG: virtual package harddrive-detection Is the status 2 on configuring partman a problem perhaps? I've tried preconfigured partitions aswell home grown but all result in the guided page being displayed Check very carefully against the example provided in:
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apcs01.html.en
I've gone through the example found here: http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/example-preseed.txt line for line and changed a few things including the order which now matches exactly the order of the example. I've attached the updated again. You have at least a few options in your file that are useless with a
custom recipe: d-i partman-auto/init_automatically_partition select Manually edit partition table d-i partman-auto/method string regular
The last is Etch-specific, i.e. is not supported by the Sarge installer. Thanks for this, I've removed them I appreciate your help Frans. Regards, Andrew
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