Re: GPT preseed [ almost solved ]

[Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 9:10 PM, Darren Baginski <kickbsd@yandex.com> wrote:
> 31.05.2012, 13:16, "Tom H" <tomh0665@gmail.com>:
>>
>> What's the output of "parted -l /dev/sda" or "gdisk -l /dev/sda" after
>> this install?
>
> Final recipe is:
> d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe string physics-workstation :: \
>              32 32 32 free                                  \
>                      $gptonly{ }                            \
>                      $primary{ }                            \
>                      $bios_boot{ }                          \
>                      method{ biosgrub }                     \
>              .                                              \
>              1600 1000 1600   linux-swap                    \
>                      $gptonly{ }                            \
>                      $primary{ }                            \
>                      method{ swap } format{ }               \
>              .                                              \
>              25500 9000 25555 xfs                           \
>                      $gptonly{ }                            \
>                      $primary{ }                            \
>                      method{ format } format{ }             \
>                      use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ xfs }    \
>                      mountpoint{ / }                        \
>              .
>
> # gdisk -l /dev/vda
> Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
>   1              34           62534   30.5 MiB    EF02
>   2           62535         3187535   1.5 GiB     8200
>   3         3187536        52992223   23.7 GiB    0700

I'd been wondering whether "32 32 32" was referring to sectors or MBs.
You've ended up with a large bios_boot partition (given your very
large disk, it doesn't really matter...)

Thanks again.