Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org> (2015-05-27): > Hello, > in case a machine has just one disk, we can skip the > > d-i partman-auto/disk string <device> > > line and the d-i will do the right thing. > > Sometimes we also have machines with multiple drives, consider the now > usual case of a fast SSD for the OS and a slower/larger spinning drive > for data. > > In order to avoid writing a custom preseed file all the times, we're > wondering if there is already a policy that would instruct d-i to use > the smallest physical drive on the system as the one to partition and > use for installation or alternatively how we should write our > preseed.cfg to obtain that (eventually with some early_command?). Looking at partman-auto I don't think there's anything like what you're wishing for. And yes, early_command might be your friend, from the partman-base templates: | Template: partman/early_command | Type: string | Description: for internal use; can be preseeded | Shell command or commands to run immediately before partitioning Mraw, KiBi.
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