I am trying to automate some installations for our new datacenter, and I have
encountered a few problems in the debian-installer preseed. Specifically:
1) I cannot partition multiple disks. I have some Hadoop systems with four
raid arrays connected - one for the OS, and three for HDFS storage. I can only
create partitions on /dev/sda (the OS partition). Isn't there a device{ }
directive for partman that tells it which device to create partitions on?
2) We are using LDAP authentication for our production systems, so I don't want
to create any local users. 'd-i passwd/make-user boolean false' is not
honored. Any ideas?
3) For whatever reason, my Dell machines don't successfully DHCP for an address
the first time (even though they have PXE'd, so obviously DHCP is functional).
It fails, and if I select retry, it succeeds. the 'd-i netcfg/dhcp_failed'
directives aren't helping, it gets stuck at the note that DHCP failed. Is
there a good way to bypass this and tell it to automatically retry?
Alternately, is there any way to tell it not to DHCP for an address, but to
give it static configuration?
4) My hostname isn't getting saved after install - it defaults back to
'ubuntu'. Why isn't it keeping the hostname?
I appreciate any insight people can give us. Thanks!
-j
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