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Bug#478219: debian-installer: Debian-installer ignores preseed-configuration: base-installer/kernel/image



Op 28-04-2008 om 08:34 schreef Ronald:
In my preseed file, I have the following line:

bootstrap-base base-installer/kernel/image none

According to the guide, the installer *shouldn't* install any kernel
images. However, it does.

http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.mips/apbs04.html#preseed-base-installer
says

|# The kernel image (meta) package to be installed; "none" can be used if
|# no
|# kernel is to be installed.
|#d-i base-installer/kernel/image string linux-image-2.6-486

bugreporter preseed file should have the line
|d-i base-installer/kernel/image string none
(without the | character)
Notice 'd-i' versus the wrong 'bootstrap-base'
and 'string' added.

Bug?

Yes.  At least in the preseed file of the submitter of this bugreport.


Ronald:
How did you come up with the (wrong) line
|bootstrap-base base-installer/kernel/image none
?

I'm asking because I assume there might be debian-installer documentation
that needs love.


Cheers
Geert Stappers

I made that line out of cdebconf configration files inside /var/log:

snip>>>
Name: base-installer/kernel/image
Template: base-installer/kernel/image
Value: linux-image-2.6-486
Owners: unknown, bootstrap-base
Variables:
 ID = base-installer/kernel/image
KERNELS = linux-image-2.6-486,linux-image-2.6-686,linux-image-2.6.24-1-486,linux-image-2.6.24-1-686
<<<snip

However, I always found this was rather conflicting because the documentation said that the syntax was like:

<owner> <option> <value>

So I thought of this line:

bootstrap-base base-installer/kernel/image none

The documentation reported it like this (as you said):

d-i base-installer/kernel/image none

But I know examples (one from java if I'm correctly) that if I use d-i as owner, that won't work. Furthermore,

Owners: unknown, bootstrap-base

Does *not* list d-i (rather confusing if you ask me).

I will try to use d-i as owner instead of bootstrap-base the next time (and remove the quotes from none). Thank you =)



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