Re: Sarge installer

(Please do not CC me.)

Sorry, no offence intended.

On Thursday 22 February 2007 14:00, Andrew Leach wrote:
> Same effect, the guilded or manual partitioning screen keeps on being
> displayed.

Try putting a space between "stringxenserver" ....

Ah yes, a typo . Have corrected that.

> Are there any problems/bugs with partman?

No, using a recipe works if you do it correctly.

Then it's clearly something I'm doing wrong so let me explain what I'm using.

On a usb stick I downloaded the hd-media files from here:
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-i386/current/images/hd-media/

I'm using the syslinux file (ldlinux.sys) from here:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/syslinux-3.36.tar.gz

and I'm using the business card iso from here:
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r5/i386/iso-cd/debian-31r5-i386-businesscard.iso

My syslinux.cfg file looks like this:
default linux
label linux
kernel vmlinuz
append initrd=initrd.gz ramdisk_size=10240 root=/dev/rd/0 devfs=mount,dall rw languagechooser/language-name=English countrychooser/shortlist=GB console-keymaps-at/keymap=uk debconf/priority=critical
prompt 0
timeout 10

I also have a conf directory where the preseed.cfg file is located.

The process always stops at the [!!} Partition disk, Partitioning metho, Entire IDE1, Entire SCSI, Manually screen. Looking at the debug log I see the following:
DEBUG: Menu item 'partman' selected
DEBUG: configure partman, status 2
DEBUG: configure libc6, status 0
DEBUG: vitural package libc6
DEBUG: configure libparted1.6-12, status 0
DEBUG: virtual package libparted1.6-12
DEBUG: configure harddrive-detection, status (fat horizontal line which goes off the screen)
DEBUG: virtual package harddrive-detection

Is the status 2 on configuring partman a problem perhaps?

I've tried preconfigured partitions aswell home grown but all result in the guided page being displayed

Check very carefully against the example provided in:
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apcs01.html.en

I've gone through the example found here:
http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/example-preseed.txt
line for line and changed a few things including the order which now matches exactly the order of the example. I've attached the updated again.

You have at least a few options in your file that are useless with a
custom recipe:
d-i partman-auto/init_automatically_partition select Manually edit
partition table
d-i partman-auto/method string regular

The last is Etch-specific, i.e. is not supported by the Sarge installer.

Thanks for this, I've removed them

I appreciate your help Frans.

Regards,
Andrew