Brian wrote:
On Sun 04 Nov 2012 at 06:55:41 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
*My procedure*
1. Partition/format a 16 GB USB stick as single primary partition
formatted as ext2 using Gparted.
At this stage of the installer's operation it is very happy to deal with
FAT16. I'd suggest you fall in
On Mon 05 Nov 2012 at 07:49:29 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
Brian wrote:
On Sun 04 Nov 2012 at 06:55:41 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
*My procedure*
1. Partition/format a 16 GB USB stick as single primary partition
formatted as ext2 using Gparted.
At this stage of the installer's
Richard Owlett wrote:
Why - learn to use preseeding.
Why now - I think I've found an install related bug. Using
preseed.cfg would eliminate human error as cause.
For simplicity and repeatability I'm installing from DVD
with no network connection of any sort.
The DVD is disk 1 of 8 of a
On Sun 04 Nov 2012 at 06:55:41 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
*My procedure*
1. Partition/format a 16 GB USB stick as single primary partition
formatted as ext2 using Gparted.
At this stage of the installer's operation it is very happy to deal with
FAT16. I'd suggest you fall in with its wishes
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
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
Jon Dowland wrote:
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
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net 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,
Tom H wrote:
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net 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
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote:
Tom H wrote:
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net
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
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, but could
it be reproduced/triaged in a virtual machine? It might be much quicker/easier
to
Why - learn to use preseeding.
Why now - I think I've found an install related bug. Using
preseed.cfg would eliminate human error as cause.
For simplicity and repeatability I'm installing from DVD
with no network connection of any sort.
The DVD is disk 1 of 8 of a commercial copy of Debian
In my experience, preseeding is pretty awkward. My advice: start
from scratch, try to guess the right thing to put in in order to
answer the first couple of questions, try it. Did those questions
get answered? Then add a few more for the next few questions.
Repeat.
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Jon Dowland wrote:
In my experience, preseeding is pretty awkward. My advice: start
from scratch, try to guess the right thing to put in in order to
answer the first couple of questions, try it. Did those questions
get answered? Then add a few more for the next few questions.
Repeat.
I
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