Andrew Phillips wrote: > I get video corruption right after the preseed is downloaded. This goes > away after changing consoles. Could be just this box, haven't tried > others. IIRC someone else reported this and he was preseeding something that was not wise to preseed, but I forget what. > I can't seem to get exim to configure if preseeded. What I want is this, > but I've tried other combinations with a similar non-result. Sorry I > can't describe this better. I haven't had much luck configuring it by > hand (not using preseed) during the install either. I guess if you can't get it to do whatever you want by hand, you'll have a hard time getting it to work preseeded.. > locale.gen doesn't get filled with the locale list I preseed. This is > really annoying because I need en_CA.*, en_US.* and fr_CA.* to work. > Maybe this isn't supposed to work? This is because its config script parses /etc/locale.gen, sets locales/locales_to_be_generated to what is found there, and asks the question. This is good for reconfiguring noticing manual changes to the file, but it does make preseeding impossible. I think we could get the best of both worlds if the script noticed if this was the first install of locales and did not look at the file then. > The following partman recipe should create /boot, / and swap as primary > partitions, only the first two are created as primary. This is forgivable > though. :) Maybe it doesn't support swap on a primary partition. Since none of the standard recipes try to do that, it would be an easy oversight. > It would be nice if the preseed overwrote the already selected country, > when grabbing it from a URL. You can do that, the thing is that one variable goes into countrychooser and it is converted into some other debconf variables. So you have to preseed those. I forget what they are, but you can find them in the source or in debconf-get-selections --installer after an install. > I'm using this to get the proxy into apt.conf. Don't know if it's still > needed, as I saw a bug related to this that was recently closed. > > base-config base-config/early_command string test -f /etc/apt/apt.conf || echo 'Acquire::http::Proxy "http://whxs4.dart.ns.ec.gc.ca:3128";;' > /etc/apt/apt.conf This should no longer be necessary. > It would be nice to preseed additional APT sources and packages to install > so I don't have to use this late_command: > > base-config base-config/late_command string echo >> /etc/apt/sources.list && echo 'deb http://phillipsa.dart.ns.ec.gc.ca/~andrew/debian-ec/apt unstable/' >> /etc/apt/sources.list && echo 'deb-src http://phillipsa.dart.ns.ec.gc.ca/~andrew/debian-ec/apt unstable/' >> /etc/apt/sources.list && apt-get update && apt-get --yes install ec-standard Yeah, I may add something for that post sarge. On the other hand, the late_command does work, and I've been thinking of ways to beef up its interface so it's easier to use (not needing everything on one line). > Being able to add additional tasks through preseed would be nice to do > too. This would help with the above. We have our own meta package for > development and desktop machines which I am installing after setup. To do that you only need to install a package containing the tasks desc file for the new task. > If the URL in preseed/url isn't found, could a dialog ask for a different > url to try? Maybe ask for a URL if it's set to ask or blank? Maybe, but does this really buy us anything worth the extra work and space use? -- see shy jo
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