[Simple-cdd-devel] Problem with partman in .preseed

[Vagrant Cascadian]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:32:48AM -0500, Daniel Gomez Sierra wrote:

> My actual pressed file looks like this:
> 
> #Zone config
> d-i debian-installer/country string CO
> d-i debian-installer/locale string es_CO.UTF-8

note that you really should configure these elsewhere, as preseeding isn't
loaded *after* the locale is configured. see the README and simple-cdd --help
for more locale settings.

 
> #Unable root login
> passwd passwd/root-login boolean false

if you disable root login, you probably want an additional user configured with
sudo privledges... otherwise nobody has root access- unless this is
intentional?
 

> # Partitioning
> #d-i partman-auto/init_automatically_partition \
> #    select Guided - use the largest continuous free space
> d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/hda
> d-i partman-auto/method string regular
> d-i partman-auto/choose_recipe select Separate - /home /usr /var and /tmp
> partitions

it needs to match *exactly* what partman-auto/choose_recipe expects...

i'm not sure, but for partman-auto/choose_recipe, you may have to use the same
string as translated to your configured language...

try an install with that question commented out, and then:

  debconf-get-selections --installer | egrep partman-auto/choose_recipe

to see what it actually stores there.

alternately, try and install with locale set to an english locale, and see if
your preseeding works as expected.

good luck!


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