Florian Lohoff <f@zz.de> writes: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 02:48:10PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Florian Lohoff <f@zz.de> (2014-10-28): >> > i'd like to have a USB stick with complete auto installation for this i put >> > my preseed/late_script onto the usb stick - Now the d-i doesnt recognize >> > the url=file:///hd-media instead it tries to extend the url with the >> > domain from network autoconfiguration. >> > >> > Is it possible to use preseeding from the usb stick? >> >> That's covered by the installation guide: >> https://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/amd64/apbs02.html.en > > After trying around what d-i expects to be in the URL i got it > to work. > > url=file:///hd-media/d-i/jessie/./preseed.cfg > > Its a bit counterintuitive that with a http url the code > automatically prepends with /d-i/<suite>/ which it does > not with a file:// url. Well, that's my fault, probably. The code (IIRC) checks if there are fewer than 3 /'s and if so adds the default path. Of course, with file:/// urls, you've got 3 straight away. Perhaps the check for file URLs should instead say: add the default path iff the url matches ^file:///.*/$ Can anyone think of circumstances where a file:/// URL pointing at a directory, rather than a file, would be a valid thing to do? I guess that we could also adopt the same approach for other protocols, but I avoided that at the time because I thought that someone might like to have preseed files generated on the fly, on a per client basis, by specifying something like: url=http://our.magic.presseds.local/ Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/ http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg, GERMANY
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