Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> writes: > I started a test installation with a preseed file. I launched d-i with > the following command line: > > expertgui auto file=/media/preseed.cfg DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer According to the log, you actually invoked it with file=preseed.cfg: Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/install.386/vmlinuz priority=low vga=788 initrd=/install.386/gtk/initrd.gz --- auto file=preseed.cfg DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer which appears to have confused the installer into looking for it in '/usr/lib/fetch-url//preseed.cfg': /bin/fetch-url: .: line 35: can't open '/usr/lib/fetch-url//preseed.cfg': No such file or directory which isn't exactly helpful, and it certainly could have done better when telling you what was wrong, but it's not at all clear that it was going to be able to guess that you meant '/media/preseed.cfg' when you said 'preseed.cfg'. So, I'd say there's perhaps a bug in what it should guess the user meant when specifying a relative path as a value for preseed/file, but probably more likely it should just reject a relative path at that point with an error about it needing a path that is somehow anchored. 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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