Re: Etch's partman-auto broken?

["Michael S. Peek" <peek@tiem.utk.edu>]

David Härdeman wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 12:46:23PM -0400, Michael S. Peek wrote:
>
> > Either I've done something stupid again or partman-auto isn't working 
> > in the latest daily build of etch.
> >
> > What am I missing?
>
>
> The preseeding strings for partman-auto changed some weeks ago.
>
> In essence, you now need:
> d-i partman-auto/method...
> d-i partman-auto/disk...
>
> (http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/apbs04.html#preseed-partman)
>
> By the way, you didn't mention in which way it failed...did it do 
> nothing? Blow up? Presented an error message? Danced merrily around 
> the room?
Thanks for the info and the link, I added a partman-auto/method entry to 
my preseed files and it worked like a charm!

Partman-auto never ran, it just went straight into partman-base where it 
prompted me for answers.

Thanks for your help!

Michael Peek