On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 07:23:27AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Jon Dowland wrote: > >On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 04:13:17PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > >>It appears to me that my preseed.cfg file is not being read at all. > > > >OK. I don't know the nature of the problem you are trying to fix, > > The nature of the problem is that I have found *NO NONE NADA* > complete explicit instructions of what to do when handed THREE > objects: > 1. dedicated laptop capable of running Debian > 2. Debian 6.0.5 DVD 1 of 8 > 3. a USB stick which may be partitioned and formatted as required > on which can be placed a pressed.cfg. > NOTE BENE: The word "network" does not appear in that description.
OK. I am not familiar with trying it this way. I've only done it by fetching the preseed file over the web via url=<preseed file> passed on the kernel command line to the installer. > What I have found is incomplete and conflicting descriptions of > portions of the procedure(s) required drawn from various Debian > releases. Yes. Me too. > >but could > >it be reproduced/triaged in a virtual machine? It might be much > >quicker/easier > >to explore kicking off the installer in a VM, which you can interrupt/throw > >away and start again very quickly. > > Based on over 50 years of trouble shooting experience Let's discount that from before personal computers or virtual machine technology existed, shall we? > I cannot see the benefit of adding a VM to the mix when the problem is lack > of documentation.r Agreed. I thought, from your first message, you were trying to debug a bug in the installer, in which case a VM can be very useful. I've just been doing pretty much exactly this earlier in the week, which is why I replied to your message. > When I wrote "Is there a "Preseeding for Newbies" page somewhere? ", I was > indicating that I was new to Linux not that I did not have background to draw > on. I concur that the documentation, as it stands, sucks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121025125058.GE8113@debian
