problems with my partman recipe
Hi @all!
I'm new to this list and also to autoinstalling Debian, although I'm not new to Debian itself :-)
We have some PCs standing directly in our server nets to administer and especially troubleshoot without any firewalls or routers making trouble. To harmonize our environment, we decided to use *only* Debian on this PCs. (OK: Debian or Windows, but I'm not responsible for the latter.)
I thought I'd try to build an automatic installation that will be fit for servers, too. (One never knows...) Up until now I think the only difference will be that servers won't have a GUI. The idea is:
1) /boot on a partition
2) / on a partition (I don't like / as a logical volume; makes it too easy to clog it with garbage as it's oh so simply to enlarge it later on)
3) /usr, /var and /tmp as logical volumes (you know why)
4) /srv and /opt as (very) small logical volumes (if they are not in use, a few MB won't hurt; on the other hand, this prevents people from simply putting stuff in there without creating a logical volume or a partition first: It's already there)
5) swap as a logical volume
6) /home as a (not too big) logical volume (easy to enlarge when needed; on the other hand not wasting space when the system is used as a server)
But I don't want to discuss my disk layout with you. My problem is that my recipe isn't working. That's what I have in my preseed.cfg:
d-i partman-auto/method string lvm
d-i partman-lvm/device_remove_lvm boolean true
d-i partman-lvm/confirm boolean true
d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe string \
my-recipe :: \
128 128 128 ext3 \
$primary{ } $bootable{ } \
method{ format } format{ } \
use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext3 } \
mountpoint{ /boot } . \
512 512 512 ext3 \
$primary{ } \
method{ format } format{ } \
use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext3 } \
mountpoint{ / } . \
3072 3072 3072 ext3 \
$lvmok{ } \
method{ format } format{ } \
use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext3 } \
mountpoint{ /usr } . \
1536 2048 2048 ext3 \
$lvmok{ } \
method{ format } format{ } \
use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext3 } \
mountpoint{ /var } . \
128 128 128 ext3 \
$lvmok{ } \
method{ format } format{ } \
use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext3 } \
mountpoint{ /tmp } . \
32 32 32 ext3 \
$lvmok{ } \
method{ format } format{ } \
use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext3 } \
mountpoint{ /srv } . \
32 32 32 ext3 \
$lvmok{ } \
method{ format } format{ } \
use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext3 } \
mountpoint{ /opt } . \
512 512 512 ext3 \
$lvmok{ } \
method{ format } format{ } \
use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext3 } \
mountpoint{ /home } . \
1024 1024 1024 linux-swap \
$lvmok{ } \
method{ swap } format{ } .
d-i partman-auto/choose_recipe select my-recipe
d-i partman/confirm_write_new_label boolean true
d-i partman/choose_partition select Finish partitioning and write changes to disk
d-i partman/confirm boolean true
But I'm getting "Can't have a partition outside the disk!". Any ideas?
greez
mario
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