Bug#279126: INSTALL REPORT

["Kees van Vloten" <kvv@chopin.demon.nl>]

Joey,

I finally figured out what caused the screen garbeling. I had the
following setting somewhere in the preseed file:
	debconf        debconf/frontend        select  Dialog
It did not catch my attention at first because it seems to be a debconf
setting and not a d-i one. It entered the preseed file because I used the
output of debconf-get-selections to start off with. I am quite sure that
it was in that output. Shouldn't this be documented in the manual (in
chapter 4.7.1)?


In the maillist I read a thread in which you explain how to make a modular
preseed file, very nice!

I tried this using your examples and it leads to a bit strange behaviour.
This is the scenario:
The main preseed file: installer.cfg is retrieved via the kernel command
line:
	preseed/url=http://vivaldi/d-i/preseed.cfg
it contains a line like this:
	d-i     preseed/include_command string  echo "hosts/`cat /etc/hostname`.cfg"
A preseed file with the name <hostname>.cfg is found at
http://vivaldi/d-i/hosts, so far so good. Now this <hostname>.cfg contains
the following line:
	d-i preseed/include string seeds/disk-hda.cfg seeds/part-single.cfg
seeds/grub-one-os.cfg
At this point the installer looks at the url:
http://vivaldi/d-i/hosts/seeds, I instead expected (and want) it to look
at http://vivaldi/d-i/seeds, as that is the place where the files are
stored!
I worked around it placing a symlink in http://vivaldi/d-i/hosts to the
seeds directory.
Is there a clean way to specify the line
	d-i preseed/include string seeds/disk-hda.cfg seeds/part-single.cfg
seeds/grub-one-os.cfg
in another way so that the files are fetched correctly from
http://vivaldi/d-i/seeds ?

Kees.