Re: Installer not reading preseed.cfg
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 2:02 PM, keshav prabhakar <kes333@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for responding.
>>
>>> When you define "interface=eth1" in your "append" statement, the
>>> entire installation's meant to be done via this NIC. I doubt that you
>>> can switch the NICs around via your preseed file as you're trying to
>>> do - as is evidenced by the fact that d-i tries to contact debian.org
>>> via your internal NIC.
>>
>> I wasn't really trying to switch the NICs but just wanted to configure eth0
>> with an IP, gateway etc. so that when the installation is complete, I would
>> be able to ssh to it from my management network. Anyway, I commented out the
>> that line in preseed.cfg so there's no confusion:
>>
>> #d-i netcfg/choose_interface select eth0
>>
>> and continue having these lines to use my internal server as the mirror:
>>
>> d-i mirror/protocol string http
>> d-i mirror/http/hostname string 192.168.1.12
>> d-i mirror/http/directory string /Debian-6.0.7-amd64/debian/
>>
>> well, it just tries to connect to ftp.us.debian.org anyway.
>>>
>>> Perhaps you can add "d-i netcfg/choose_interface seen false" then "d-i
>>> netcfg/choose_interface select eth0" to your preseed file to switch
>>> the NICs. I've never used "<anything> seen false" so this might not be
>>> the correct use for it. AFAIK, it's used for you to be prompted for
>>> that value not to reset it in order to pass it through the same
>>> preseed file.
>>
>> I have disconnected eth0 for now and removed it from preseed.cfg so I guess
>> this shouldn't matter (?)
>>>
>>> You might also want to add "DEBCONF_DEBUG=5" to the "append" line to
>>> get more information about the failure but the latter's cause seems
>>> quite clear nonetheless.
>>>
>> added it and saw that it infact is trying to connect to ftp.us.debian.org. I
>> have no idea where it is getting it from:
>>
>> debconf: --> GET mirror/http/hostname
>> debconf: <-- 0 ftp.us.debian.org
>>
>> (I guess '0' indicates it couldn't find a preseed value and falling back to
>> using default, which is ftp.us.debian.org?)
>>
>> Thanks again for your time!
>
> You're welcome.
>
> Back to square one...
>
> Can you wget your preseed file from a d-i console?
Also 1483 seems like a very small preseed file.
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