[Simple-cdd-devel] manual partitioning is not available

[Stanislav Sinyagin]

Thank you, it worked:
https://github.com/ssinyagin/pcengines-apu-debian-cd/blob/master/profiles/manual.prerun



On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 4:50 AM, Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant at debian.org> wrote:
> On 2017-07-24, Stanislav Sinyagin wrote:
>> I'm setting up a profile that should let the user configure settings manually.
>> See "manual.conf" and "manual.preceed" at
>> https://github.com/ssinyagin/pcengines-apu-debian-cd/tree/manual/profiles
>>
>> The problem that I'm facing is that partman does not allow any custom
>> partitioning:
>>
>> "Manual" option in the main partman menu does not do anything.
>>
>> Before writing the layout to disk, if I press "no", it does not offer
>> any customization, and stays on the same screen.
>
> This is because several partitioning options have been specified in the
> default.preseed:
>
>   $ grep partman profiles/default.preseed | grep -v ^'#'
>   d-i partman-auto/method string regular
>   d-i partman-auto/choose_recipe  select All files in one partition (recommended for new users)
>   d-i partman/choose_partition  select Finish partitioning and write changes to disk
>
>
> You'd need to create your own default.preseed and not include those
> entries. At the very least, default.preseed needs to contain:
>
>   d-i preseed/early_command string anna-install simple-cdd-profiles
>
>
> live well,
>   vagrant