Hi All,
I'm setting up a preseed installation scheme. Considering the partitioning the
docs on the debian-websites are not specific enough. It is not possible for
me to spedify the hdd for automatic partition creation. In the following I
shall describe, what I have done and where the problem is.
My setup is:
* USB stick for booting, which loads a preseed from my http-server
* USB stick is /dev/sda
* HDD where debian should be installed is /dev/sdb
This is the relevant section for the partition creation:
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# REFERENCE (a)
d-i preseed/early_command string dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb count=64
# REFERENCE (b)
d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/discs/disc1/disc #/dev/sdb
d-i partman-auto/method string regular
d-i partman/confirm_new_label boolean true
d-i partman-auto/choose_recipe select one-small-partition
# ok
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
# needed to shut up complaint about unused keep_2 lv
d-i partman-basicmethods/method_only boolean false
d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe string one-small-partition :: \
10000 10000 10000 ext3 $primary{ } $bootable{ } method{ format } \
format{ } use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext3 } mountpoint{ / } .\
64 512 300% linux-swap method{ swap } format{ } . \
100 10000 1000000000 ext2 method{ keep } .
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Problem:
The problem is now, that reference (b) in the snipplet doesn't choose disk1
aka sdb - even though the disk is recognized after the additional modules
have been loaded (I verified this in another console). The installer always
uses the scheme for sda - aka the usb stick and the debian stuff is installed
on my installation-usb-stick...
How can I configure the hdd choice - the snipplet above is extracted from the
example of the debian website and obiously doesn't work. Maybe this part of
the installer is evaluated, before the hdd-controller modules are loaded and
therefore no sdb exists yet? Is there any way to debug stuff like this? Or is
there a more elegant way to exclude just the usb stick (by uuid) from the
partman-choices?
Additional question:
Further I'm wondering if there is another way to delete old partitions
automatically. In reference (a) in the snipplet I try to do this the hard
way. By the way: Also this line is not working. It has been extracted from my
old patched initrd-scheme.
Best regards & much thanks for your efforts:
Gerolf
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http://gerolf.ziegenhain.com
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