Kees van Vloten wrote: > I finally figured out what caused the screen garbeling. I had the > following setting somewhere in the preseed file: > debconf debconf/frontend select Dialog > It did not catch my attention at first because it seems to be a debconf > setting and not a d-i one. It entered the preseed file because I used the > output of debconf-get-selections to start off with. I am quite sure that > it was in that output. Shouldn't this be documented in the manual (in > chapter 4.7.1)? I know of several variables that are set by debconf-get-selections that can break preseeding. Rather than try to document them all, I just decided that having most people use debconf-get-selections is a bad idea, and I tried to under-emphasise it in the manual, and added the warning "However, a file generated in this manner will have some items that should not be preseeded", and a working example preseed file. I don't know how to improve on this, short of not mentioning it at all. > In the maillist I read a thread in which you explain how to make a modular > preseed file, very nice! > > I tried this using your examples and it leads to a bit strange behaviour. > This is the scenario: > The main preseed file: installer.cfg is retrieved via the kernel command > line: > preseed/url=http://vivaldi/d-i/preseed.cfg > it contains a line like this: > d-i preseed/include_command string echo "hosts/`cat /etc/hostname`.cfg" > A preseed file with the name <hostname>.cfg is found at > http://vivaldi/d-i/hosts, so far so good. Now this <hostname>.cfg contains > the following line: > d-i preseed/include string seeds/disk-hda.cfg seeds/part-single.cfg > seeds/grub-one-os.cfg > At this point the installer looks at the url: > http://vivaldi/d-i/hosts/seeds, I instead expected (and want) it to look > at http://vivaldi/d-i/seeds, as that is the place where the files are > stored! > I worked around it placing a symlink in http://vivaldi/d-i/hosts to the > seeds directory. > Is there a clean way to specify the line > d-i preseed/include string seeds/disk-hda.cfg seeds/part-single.cfg > seeds/grub-one-os.cfg > in another way so that the files are fetched correctly from > http://vivaldi/d-i/seeds ? Includes in preseed files are always relative to the file that contains the include. This allows for some useful behavior actually. Anyway, you can use ../seeds/part-single.cfg in your include files in the hosts/ directory and it will work. -- see shy jo
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