Fraser Campbell wrote: > I first tried the debian-installer RC1 and it seemed to completely ignore the Preseeding was implemented after rc1. > option, I then upgraded to daily builds and was able to at least see it > complain that it could not load the file. What's the error message? > I understand that fetching from http means you will get asked questions up > when the network is configured (I do have dhcp available). I always went to > the point where the network was configured and then selected the "Load > debconf preseed" option (pardon inexact titles). The file was not getting > loaded (unable to fetch was the basic message) despite the fact that I could > go to another console and wget the file. > > On one occasion I did see the complaint "preseed file is corrupt" (again not > exact message perhaps) but on subsequent attempts (with hopefully non-corrupt > preseed files) I could not get it to give me that message again ... i.e. it > seemed to not even be trying to fetch. > > Is the preseed option functional at all? Any tips/ideas on what I might be > doing wrong? Maybe you're using a hostname that is not in the dns or something? Any relevant error messages should be in the logs. All I can say about the preseed stuff is it was just implemented and it works for me. -- see shy jo
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