Kees van Vloten wrote: > The laguagechooser cannot be preseeded because the language questions is > set to level "critical", hence installation always stops here. > > I changed the questions level to high and it runs nicely: THat's not necessary, preseeding languagechooser/language-name sets its seen flag, which causes it not to be displayed no matter what priority. The critical priority is the appropriate priority. But you have to preseed this and some other things on the kernel command line, not in the preseed file, since they come before the preseed file is loaded. > There is one obstacle with network preseeding and that is that all > questions before network config cannot be preseeded. I have made an ugly > hack in the installer to apply some defaults to bypass questions. > I have put a script called S25setenv in /lib/debian-installer-startup.d : We already deal with this via kernel command line parameters and the env2debconf script. > where /etc/preload.cfg contains: > debconf-set languagechooser/locale "en" > debconf-set languagechooser/language-name "English" > debconf-set debian-installer/locale string "en_US" > debconf-set debian-installer/fallbacklocale "en_US.UTF-8" > debconf-set debian-installer/language "en_US:en_GB:en" > debconf-set debian-installer/country "NL" > debconf-set debian-installer/consoledisplay "kbd=lat0-sun16(iso15)" This explains your problem, you're not setting the seen flag, which you must do for proper preseeding. d-i's built in preseeding support does this, I don't understand why you're trying to reimplement it. > It would be nice to have better documentation of the debconf variables in > general and particulary the partitioning synax: i.e. howto set up raid, > lvm and multiple partitions through preseeding. Reading chapter 4.7 and > appendix C of the installation guide helps but leaves a lot of questions. Currently setting up lvm and raid via preseeding is not possible. > After installation instead of reboot the machine switches off. When it is > turned on again instllation continues correctly with base-config. > Again a lot of experimenting finally leaded to a working preseed file for > this part of the installation. Again better documentation could help a > lot. There is an example, working preseed file in the manual. -- see shy jo
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