Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection
> On Thu, November 16, 2006 20:54, Olaf van der Spek said:
>> David Härdeman wrote:
>>> On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 07:50:11PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
>>>> Olaf van der Spek wrote:
>>>>> David Härdeman wrote:
>>>>>> Dennis, Olaf...could you try changing the "partman-auto/disk" entry
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> "partman-auto/select_disk" in your preseed files and see if that
>>>>>> fixes
>>>>>> things
>>>>>
>>>>> After adding that line "d-i partman-auto/select_disk select
>>>>> SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 8.6 GB VMware, VMware Virtual S" the installer
>>>>> gets stuck at:
>>>>> Starting up the partitioner
>>>>> 85%
>>>>> Please wait...
>
> Dennis, Olaf,
>
> my excuses to both of you, I seem to have led you on a wild goose chase :)
>
> Your recipies are missing the "partman-auto/method" entry which you need
> in addition to "partman-auto/disk" (and forget what I said about
> "partman-auto/select_disk").
>
> Thanks to JoeyH for pointing that out.
I'll try that one.
But why does it only ask the disk question and not the method question if
you forget both?
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