Marc L. de Bruin wrote: > label meaculpa > kernel debian-installer/i386/2.6/linux > append vga=normal initrd=debian-installer/i386/2.6/initrd.gz > ramdisk_size=10934 root=/dev/rd/0 devfs=mount,dall rw > languagechooser/language-name=English countrychooser/shortlist=US > DEBCONF_PRIORITY=critical preseed/url=http://192.168.65.1/symon/stable.cfg > > However, VMware is rather slow with framebuffering, so I thought to > change "vga=normal" with "debian-installer/framebuffer=false". That > brought the debian-installer to a halt because the "preseed/url" got > truncated due to the maximum length of the the command line (255 chars I > guess). I read somewhere that "video=vga16:off" should work but at least > on VMware it doesn't. > > Is there an abbreviated form like "d-i/fb=f" I could use? Or some other > clever way to work arround the 255 chars command line length maximum? At > least 2.6.8 has this limitation IIRC. The devfs=mount,dall can be removed. Daily builds of the installer let you replace languagechooser/language-name=English countrychooser/shortlist=US" with "debian-installer/locale=en_US". We're not very far away from an installer that can automatically find a preseed file to use based on a specially configured dhcp server. I think that'll be the final solution to these problems. -- see shy jo
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