Re: Debian Installer: Specifying the preseed file device?

2023-03-13 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 13 Mar 2023 16:36:11 + Brian wrote: > That still leaves the first problem. How do you fancy running > everything from a USB stick? Not really, but that might work. Thanks. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/

Re: Debian Installer: Specifying the preseed file device?

2023-03-13 Thread Brian
On Mon 13 Mar 2023 at 10:18:37 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > On Mon, 13 Mar 2023 14:58:08 + > Brian wrote: > > > It is what d-i sees the partition as that is important and you > > do know in advance. That's problem 1. Problem 2 is that the hard > > disk partitions are probably ext4. At the

Re: Debian Installer: Specifying the preseed file device?

2023-03-13 Thread Mario Marietto
Hello to every Debian user. I've just installed Debian 11 and I see that it is affected by the bug explained here : https://bugs.launchpad.net/oem-priority/+bug/1842320 I see that the bug has been fixed on Ubuntu. Do you confirm that,to fix it,I just need to install the package

Re: Debian Installer: Specifying the preseed file device?

2023-03-13 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 13 Mar 2023 14:58:08 + Brian wrote: > It is what d-i sees the partition as that is important and you > do know in advance. That's problem 1. Problem 2 is that the hard > disk partitions are probably ext4. At the opening stage of d-i > I do not think ext4 drivers are available. Both

Re: Debian Installer: Specifying the preseed file device?

2023-03-13 Thread Brian
On Mon 13 Mar 2023 at 08:01:51 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > On Mon, 13 Mar 2023 08:19:26 +0100 > wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 12, 2023 at 04:08:28PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > > > I can specify the path to the preseed file when booting Debian > > > Installer (d-i). Is there any way to tell it

Re: Debian Installer: Specifying the preseed file device?

2023-03-13 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 13 Mar 2023 08:19:26 +0100 wrote: > On Sun, Mar 12, 2023 at 04:08:28PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > > I can specify the path to the preseed file when booting Debian > > Installer (d-i). Is there any way to tell it that the preseed file > > is on device X, say /dev/sdb1? > > You

Re: Debian Installer: Specifying the preseed file device?

2023-03-13 Thread tomas
On Sun, Mar 12, 2023 at 04:08:28PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > I can specify the path to the preseed file when booting Debian Installer > (d-i). Is there any way to tell it that the preseed file is on device > X, say /dev/sdb1? You mean: the file is as raw data on the device? Or whithin a file

Re: Debian Installer: Specifying the preseed file device?

2023-03-13 Thread Luna Jernberg
*forwards to debian-boot * On 3/13/23, john doe wrote: > On 3/12/23 23:08, Charles Curley wrote: >> I can specify the path to the preseed file when booting Debian Installer >> (d-i). Is there any way to tell it that the preseed file is on device >> X, say /dev/sdb1? >> >> > > This is not an

Re: Debian Installer: Specifying the preseed file device?

2023-03-13 Thread john doe
On 3/12/23 23:08, Charles Curley wrote: I can specify the path to the preseed file when booting Debian Installer (d-i). Is there any way to tell it that the preseed file is on device X, say /dev/sdb1? This is not an answer to your question and this is more appropreate for debian-boot. I'll

Debian Installer: Specifying the preseed file device?

2023-03-12 Thread Charles Curley
I can specify the path to the preseed file when booting Debian Installer (d-i). Is there any way to tell it that the preseed file is on device X, say /dev/sdb1? Once d-i is booted and in the installation menu, I can activate a console, manually umount the incorrect partition, and manually mount