Hello, I have been trying for some time how to preseed a rather complex situation: root-on-LVM-on-LUKS-on-RAID1 . I know I could do it manually in a fraction of the time I have already invested here, but that is beside the point :-) Any _other_ insight you could give me would be much appreciated: I tried using the partman-auto/expert_recipe as shown in http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/example-preseed.txt . This sets up root-on-LVM-on-RAID1 and that works well. But adding an extra partition with the entries cipher, crypto_type, ivalgorithm, keyfile, keyhash, keysize, keytype, and crypt_active does not seem to work: the installer shows a wierd error dialog with only questionmarks as title and text. This seems to make some sense, as the recipe is is parsed by (no guarantees): /lib/partman/lib/recipes.sh : decode_recipe() called by: /lib/partman/lib/auto-lvm.sh : auto_lvm_prepare() called by ??? This has no connection to crypto... I also tried using my own script to do the partitioning, called by partman/early_command . While this creates the partitions nicely, I do not know how to inform partman of my settings. This should be doable by putting files in directories below /var/lib/partman/devices/. But how to create the general directory structure before adding the important files (like mountpoint, label, ...)? I see three possibilities of how to continue with this: * fix the expert_recipe, if possible. Does anyone have a short template for root-on-LVM-on-LUKS-on-RAID1 ? * extend my partitioning script so it communicates correctly with partman. Is there any information available how to do that? Is it even possible (partman is not yet running when the script executes, so the FIFOs used by all the partman-scripts do not exist yet)? * use my script to add a new script in /lib/partman somewhere to do what I want. But the question is again: what should the script do??? Any documentation? I realize that I could solve the questions by just reading all the scripts contained below /lib/partman . But after doing that for more than one day already without finding the solution and seeing that there are quite a few of those scripts (df says it is 1244 1K-blocks), I hope to get an answer from one of you :-) Thanks for reading till the end, Olaf Mandel -- Olaf Mandel <olaf@mandel.name> <http://www.olaf.mandel.name/> PGP key: 1024D/33398848 2002-09-19 Fingerprint: 0E33 BEA6 1A71 9C5E 62BD FC0E 99A7 D2C6 3339 8848
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