Re: Problems and questions with preseeding

2013-04-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Brian Potkin, le Mon 08 Apr 2013 14:10:52 +0100, a écrit : The documentation is concise and accurate. However, it was written for Etch. Not only. Remember that only a couple of archs have a graphical boot menu. Others still have the pure-text boot prompt. we will recollect that a user

Re: Re: Problems and questions with preseeding

2013-04-13 Thread Brian Potkin
On Fri 12 Apr 2013 at 22:42:16 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: Moving on: The auto kernel parameter is an alias for . . . I'll merely remark that 'auto' is not a kernel parameter. The statement conflicts with the earlier assertion. I'll back down on that. At the moment of writing I mixed

Re: Problems and questions with preseeding

2013-04-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Regid Ichira, le Mon 08 Apr 2013 05:00:40 +0300, a écrit : 2. Even though the dhcp server is supplying a host name, and the preseeding file has a d-i netcfg/get_hostname string hostname set, the installer insists to ask the hostname question. example-preseed.txt

Re: Re: Problems and questions with preseeding

2013-04-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Vincent McIntyre, le Mon 08 Apr 2013 23:23:14 +1000, a écrit : Should this instead be worded '... is not defined on all arches'? I guess so. Here's the patch, any good Phil? Seems good, I commited it. Thanks, Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Re: Problems and questions with preseeding

2013-04-12 Thread Brian Potkin
On Fri 12 Apr 2013 at 15:58:53 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Vincent McIntyre, le Mon 08 Apr 2013 23:23:14 +1000, a écrit : Should this instead be worded '... is not defined on all arches'? I guess so. Here's the patch, any good Phil? Seems good, I commited it. Looking at the first

Re: Problems and questions with preseeding

2013-04-09 Thread Regid Ichira
On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 10:20:51AM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: Hi Regid, Regid Ichira regi...@nt1.in writes: 1. The auto alias doesn't work. auto=true does work. In fact, the installation guide has contradictory saying on this issue.

Re: Problems and questions with preseeding

2013-04-08 Thread Philip Hands
Hi Regid, Regid Ichira regi...@nt1.in writes: 1. The auto alias doesn't work. auto=true does work. In fact, the installation guide has contradictory saying on this issue. http://d-i.debian.org/manual/en.i386/apbs02.html, B.2. Using preseeding, has examples with only auto, without

Re: Problems and questions with preseeding

2013-04-08 Thread Brian Potkin
On Mon 08 Apr 2013 at 10:20:51 +0100, Philip Hands wrote: The problem here is that in one context, it's talking about a syslinux label auto which allows you to select a kernel command line that includes the kernel parameters: auto=true priority=critical when compared to the other

Re: Re: Problems and questions with preseeding

2013-04-08 Thread Vincent McIntyre
(please cc:, not subscribed) Hi, I have taken a swing at this, see below. When writing, one thing that I found particularly confusing is the sentence: The literalauto/literal boot label is not yet defined everywhere. _Where_ is it not defined? I'm not understanding what universe that

Problems and questions with preseeding

2013-04-07 Thread Regid Ichira
1. The auto alias doesn't work. auto=true does work. In fact, the installation guide has contradictory saying on this issue. http://d-i.debian.org/manual/en.i386/apbs02.html, B.2. Using preseeding, has examples with only auto, without a value. And further down that page, it is