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Bug#511053: marked as done ([patch] minor fixes to partman/preseeding notes)

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regarding [patch] minor fixes to partman/preseeding notes
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Package: debian-installer
Severity: minor

I was trying to install 'etch' with the 'lenny' dailies and I got
caught by the change in the way disks names are handled, ie preseeding
  d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/discs/disc0/disc
no longer works.
I was reading the partman docs and noticed a few things.

Two patches are attached for your consideration.

 - partman-auto-recipe.txt.patch
     a few suggested grammatical changes

 - preseed.xml
     it is now possible to preseed multiple disks
     try to enhance preseeding example's comments
     point to partman-auto-recipe.txt on websvn.
     mention lvm-related improvements


This contribution is licensed under GPL2, if that matters.

Cheers
Vince
Index: installer/doc/devel/partman-auto-recipe.txt
===================================================================
--- installer/doc/devel/partman-auto-recipe.txt	(revision 57117)
+++ installer/doc/devel/partman-auto-recipe.txt	(working copy)
@@ -197,10 +197,10 @@
 
 Multiple disks can also be partitioned at the same time. Those must be
 specified in partman-auto/disk. Partitions that are neither on a Logical
-Volumes, nor have a specific device specified (e.g. /boot) will default on
+Volume, nor have a specific device specified (e.g. /boot) will default on
 being on the first disk.
     
-To explicitely declare a Physical Volume, define a parition  the following:
+To explicitly declare a Physical Volume, define a partition as follows:
 
 100 1000 1000000000 ext3
         $defaultignore{ }
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@
         method{ swap }
         format{ } .
 
-"lv_name{ }" specify the name of the Logical Volume being created.
+"lv_name{ }" specifies the name of the Logical Volume being created.
 
 4. ARCHITECTURE DEPENDENT RECIPES
 ---------------------------------

Index: appendix/preseed.xml
===================================================================
--- appendix/preseed.xml	(revision 57116)
+++ appendix/preseed.xml	(working copy)
@@ -935,13 +935,11 @@
   <title>Partitioning</title>
 <para>
 
-Using preseeding to partition the harddisk is very much limited to what is
+Using preseeding to partition the harddisk is limited to what is
 supported by <classname>partman-auto</classname>. You can choose to partition
 either existing free space on a disk or a whole disk. The layout of the
 disk can be determined by using a predefined recipe, a custom recipe from
-a recipe file or a recipe included in the preconfiguration file. It is
-currently not possible to partition multiple disks using preseeding.
-
+a recipe file or a recipe included in the preconfiguration file.
 </para>
 
 <warning><para>
@@ -953,16 +951,23 @@
 </para></warning>
 
 <informalexample role="example"><screen>
+# If the system has only one disk the installer will default to using that.
+#
 # If the system has free space you can choose to only partition that space.
 #d-i partman-auto/init_automatically_partition select biggest_free
-
-# Alternatively, you can specify a disk to partition. The device name must
-# be given in traditional non-devfs format.
-# Note: A disk must be specified, unless the system has only one disk.
+#
+# Alternatively, you may specify a disk to partition.
+# On a multi-disk system you must specify which disk to partition.
+# The device name must be given in traditional, non-devfs format -
+# e.g. /dev/hda or /dev/sda, and not e.g. /dev/discs/disc0/disc.
 # For example, to use the first SCSI/SATA hard disk:
 #d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/sda
+
 # In addition, you'll need to specify the method to use.
-# The presently available methods are: "regular", "lvm" and "crypto"
+# The presently available methods are:
+# - regular: use the usual partition types for your architecture
+# - lvm:     use LVM to partition the disk
+# - crypto:  create encrypted partitions
 d-i partman-auto/method string lvm
 
 # If one of the disks that are going to be automatically partitioned
@@ -981,7 +986,8 @@
 d-i partman-auto/choose_recipe select atomic
 
 # Or provide a recipe of your own...
-# The recipe format is documented in the file devel/partman-auto-recipe.txt.
+# The recipe format is documented in the file doc/devel/partman-auto-recipe.txt.
+# (&url-d-i-websvn;/trunk/installer/doc/devel/partman-auto-recipe.txt)
 # If you have a way to get a recipe file into the d-i environment, you can
 # just point at it.
 #d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe_file string /hd-media/recipe
@@ -1005,6 +1011,9 @@
 #              64 512 300% linux-swap                          \
 #                      method{ swap } format{ }                \
 #              .
+# Other settings such as filesystem labels, volume group names and
+# which physical devices to include in a volume group, may be specified
+# in the expert_recipe. See partman-auto-recipe.txt for details.
 
 # This makes partman automatically partition without confirmation, provided
 # that you told it what to do using one of the methods above.

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Source: installation-guide
Source-Version: 20100518

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
installation-guide, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

installation-guide-amd64_20100518_all.deb
  to main/i/installation-guide/installation-guide-amd64_20100518_all.deb
installation-guide-armel_20100518_all.deb
  to main/i/installation-guide/installation-guide-armel_20100518_all.deb
installation-guide-hppa_20100518_all.deb
  to main/i/installation-guide/installation-guide-hppa_20100518_all.deb
installation-guide-i386_20100518_all.deb
  to main/i/installation-guide/installation-guide-i386_20100518_all.deb
installation-guide-ia64_20100518_all.deb
  to main/i/installation-guide/installation-guide-ia64_20100518_all.deb
installation-guide-mips_20100518_all.deb
  to main/i/installation-guide/installation-guide-mips_20100518_all.deb
installation-guide-mipsel_20100518_all.deb
  to main/i/installation-guide/installation-guide-mipsel_20100518_all.deb
installation-guide-powerpc_20100518_all.deb
  to main/i/installation-guide/installation-guide-powerpc_20100518_all.deb
installation-guide-s390_20100518_all.deb
  to main/i/installation-guide/installation-guide-s390_20100518_all.deb
installation-guide-sparc_20100518_all.deb
  to main/i/installation-guide/installation-guide-sparc_20100518_all.deb
installation-guide_20100518.dsc
  to main/i/installation-guide/installation-guide_20100518.dsc
installation-guide_20100518.tar.gz
  to main/i/installation-guide/installation-guide_20100518.tar.gz



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 511053@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

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Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 03:51:35 +0200
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Version: 20100518
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org>
Description: 
 installation-guide-amd64 - Debian installation guide for amd64
 installation-guide-armel - Debian installation guide for armel
 installation-guide-hppa - Debian installation guide for hppa
 installation-guide-i386 - Debian installation guide for i386
 installation-guide-ia64 - Debian installation guide for ia64
 installation-guide-mips - Debian installation guide for mips
 installation-guide-mipsel - Debian installation guide for mipsel
 installation-guide-powerpc - Debian installation guide for powerpc
 installation-guide-s390 - Debian installation guide for s390
 installation-guide-sparc - Debian installation guide for sparc
Closes: 331523 511053 532437 532440 545584 548534 577461 579935
Changes: 
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 .
   [ Colin Watson ]
   * Note that partman-auto/init_automatically_partition is only honoured if
     partman-auto/method is not set.
   * Document the use of grub-installer/grub2_instead_of_grub_legacy to
     switch back to GRUB Legacy for those who need it.
   * Remove spurious quoting in network-console documentation, pointed out by
     Jonathan Amery.
   * partman now asks a slightly different (and less scary) confirmation
     question if it doesn't appear that any data is being overwritten.
     Document the associated preseeding changes.
 .
   [ Frans Pop ]
   * Add missing hyphen in command "kbd-config". With thanks to Tapio Lehtonen.
     Closes: #545584.
   * Include a caution in the IA64 version of the manual against using IA64
     for "normal" 64-bit Intel systems.
   * Disable the variant for the alpha architecture: it is being dropped as a
     release architecture for Squeeze.
   * When updating PO files, set them to a standard width of 79 (same as used
     for l10n-sync for D-I master PO files).
   * Document that Debian now installs Recommends by default and how to disable
     that.
   * x86 USB boot: two improvements suggested by Timo Juhani Lindfors and one
     by Samuel Thibault. Closes: #532437, #532440, #548534.
   * welcome: add a link to www.kernel.org and remove the no longer valid link
     to www.kerneltraffic.org. Closes: #331523.
   * Document new help functionality.
   * Update for changes in locale selection in localechooser 2.17 and 2.18:
     - selecting a different country is now always possible at high priority;
     - change in order of selection of additional locales and default locale;
     - selection of a preferred locale if a combination of language and country
       was selected for which no locale exists;
     - support for separate preseeding of language, country and locale.
   * Mention option to select UTC as time zone at medium/low priority.
 .
   [ Martin Michlmayr ]
   * Mention more Kirkwood-based devices that are supported.
   * Document where to get Kirkwood installer images from.
   * Fix the preseeding example to say that allow_unauthenticated is a
     boolean (and not a string).
 .
   [ Joey Hess ]
   * Reword section on installer's support of wireless.
 .
   [ Steve Langasek ]
   * Update the appendix on chroot installs to not recommend mapping 127.0.0.1
     to the hostname; use 127.0.1.1, the same as the installer itself does.
 .
   [ Frans Pop ]
   * Update and extend information on preseeding partman. Based on a patch from
     Vincent McIntyre. Closes: #511053.
   * Use 'ip addr' instead of 'ifconfig' to get MAC address for RARP setup.
   * Update information on setting up a TFTP server.
   * As of Lenny syslinux no longer requires that the TFTP server supports the
     'tsize' option (see #570273). With thanks to Ferenc Wagner.
   * Using D-I: add subsection intruducing supported partitioning options,
     including a list of supported file systems.
   * Disabling framebuffer on x86 now also requires passing 'vga=normal'. With
     thanks to Samuel Thibault. Closes: #577461.
   * Update for switch of G-I from DirectFB to X.Org.
   * Update kernel version to 2.6.32, number of Debian Developers and program
     versions.
   * Update URL for Debian mirror list. Closes: #579935.
   * Disable Korean, Portuguese (BR), Spanish and Swedish translations as they
     are incomplete.
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