Peter Skogström wrote: > I have done some testing with preseeding with the latest d-i. > > Netboot works fine. > > Usbsticks, trouble with getting the preseed file from the sticks and > some other strange behaviours. > > 1. > With the kernel commandline > file=/hd-media/preseed2.cfg > > When getting the preseedfile I get this error > > "Failed to retrieve the preconfiguration file" > file://floppy:///hd-media/preseed2.cfg Ugh. I think I've fixed this, it should be fixed in the Oct 23rd build of the hd-media images. If you could try again that would be very much appreciated as my hd-media test setup is very hard for me to use right now. > udevinfo -q env -p /block/sda gives ID_TYPE=floppy > and udevinfo -q name -p /block/sda gives the name in devfs format, but > its a disk (dont remember exactly). So it misses a disk because of the > ID_TYPE, I added list-devices floppy in the line above and that makes it > work. But maybe the udev (d-i) should detect it as a disk ? > Shall I file a bug against some package ? I think you should file a bug on udev, or possibly the kernel, about it mis-detecting this as a floppy, but in the meantime I've added a hackish workaround to iso-scan. > 3. > Once and a while the iso-scan doesnt work, but always when doing it > again (from the menu) it succesfully finds the iso. (Different sticks), > seems like some function is too quick maybe ? This was broken in the most recent version is iso-scan, I think I've fixed its delayed rescanning code to work again. -- see shy jo
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