Re: debconf-get-selections and Manual Partitioning
On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 05:39:24PM +0300, Youssef Eldakar wrote:
> I am trying to use preseeding in the Debian Installer in a fashion similar to Kickstart in Anaconda. I installed a system and tried basing the preseeding file on the output of debconf-get-selections. The problem I am running into is that I do not see the manual partitioning I did during installation reflected in the output of debconf-get-selections. In short, what I am hoping to accomplish is to install a system and then tell the Debian Installer to install other systems exactly the same way I installed this system.
As far as i know, the current partman design doesn't allow for relflecting the
manual partitioning choices in debconf, so what you try to do is not (yet)
possible.
As a quick hack, and depending on your partitioning scheme, you can probably
dd the partition block from the installed system, and dd it back with some
kind of preseeding based script.
I do have some libparted based tool to generate a partition table based on a
basic filesystem description which could be used for this, i use it for doing
mass installation of pegasos system, creating the partitions, and then imaging
the disks with partimage.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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