Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> writes: > On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 06:46:14PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: >> Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> writes: >> > Package: main-menu >> > Severity: normal >> > >> > I'd like to use preseeding to pre-answer some questions in the >> > installer, while leaving others for the user to answer, including >> > questions asked with priority "high". Using "auto url=..." sets the >> > priority to critical, so I tried including the following in my preseed >> > file: >> > >> > d-i debconf/priority high >> >> Not a direct answer to the question you're asking, but you can get what >> you want without having to preseed the priority back down again. >> >> The 'auto' target is a shortcut that adds priority=critical and >> auto=true so if you don't want the priority setting just add 'auto=true' >> as well as the url setting to the normal target (IIRC 'install'), so: >> >> install auto=true url=... > > Yes, I managed to get that working in a VM. It's longer to type, > though. :) > > More importantly, leaving the priority at "high" for the initial run of > netcfg causes it to prompt for hostname and domain before it obtains and > loads the preseed file. Hence wanting to start out at "critical" and > then lower the priority after processing the preseed file. Good point -- does this perhaps point towards needing to make the setting of auto=true delay the asking of the hostname and domain until after preseeding, as with the keyboard/locale questions? I know it's a bit odd to ask those questions after the network comes up, but if one has set auto=true then you either need to set those on the command line or in an initrd preseed say, or you need the network to come up without them being set, so it makes sense to delay the processing of those settings until later -- IIRC this is something that is a bit broken anyway, since preseeding the hostname doesn't do what one might hope some of the time (unless that's been fixed while I wasn't paying attention -- I'm pretty sure it used to be the case that the hostname on the target would not be changed if one set these during network preseeding). 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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