Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
On Sat, Dec 07, 2013 at 11:54:44AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:I am aware of the options demonstrated in http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/example-preseed.txt . They do not cover my case of interest. I am experimenting with various configurations of Debian. My procedure *REQUIRES* installing Debian to a specific partition of of a disk already containing data and possibly other installs.If you have access to a spare machine, it is always worth experimenting on a machine that contains no vital information and that contains nothing that you need to keep.
*GRIN* I purchased a used laptop explicitly as a test bed. The disk contains the other configurations I'm currently trying and a copy of the distribution DVDs. The various preseed.cfg's are on a flash drive. Disaster recovery is simple, though possibly tedious.
I currently handle this by deleting all partitioning information from my preseed.cfg . This forces manual intervention during which I specify which partition I wish to use (for / and swap).If the free partition you have to install on is always the same one,
But it's not.I didn't make clear how my disk is partitioned prior to following test cycle.
A typical scheme is sda1 - an install resembling typical user defaults sda5, sda6, sda7 - a "current" experimental installs sda8 - local repository sda9 - swap All the disk space is accounted for. I then choose among (sda5, sda6, sda7) for target of next trial.
then you can script this with preseed. If grub will always be present on a boot partition at the start of the disk, you don't care provided that your new install will write a grub configuration that boots.This is the only point requiring manual intervention. I would like to eliminate it. The "partition recipe" approach is not suitable. Ideas? TIA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org Archive: [🔎] 52A360E4.2090104@cloud85.net">http://lists.debian.org/[🔎] 52A360E4.2090104@cloud85.net