Re: d-i, unattended installation
Hi,
Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> writes:
> On Tuesday 21 November 2006 13:00, Michael Welle wrote:
>> I try to perform an unattended network based installation with the
>> installer from the stable distribution. At the boot prompt I feed the
>> kernel with parameters like auto=true, priority=critical,
>> url=http://... or file=/... and locales=en. I've tried the long forms
>> like DEBCONF_PRIORITY oder debconf/priority, too. Soon after starting
>> the kernel the installer asks for the language to use. He do not even
>> try to get the preseed.cfg. network interfaces are down etc.
>>
>> Is there a way to use the installer for this scenario? Do I need some
>> magic ;)? I've tried the installer from edge, which seems to work. But
>> it tries to load some modules which are not available in the stable
>> distribution.
>
> Please use the version of the installation guide for Sarge [1] when you
> use the Sarge version of the installer. There have been quite a few
> changes in preseeding between Sarge and Etch.
I noticed that. But this bit of information hasn't found the way into
my mind ;(. After exchanging locale with languagechooser etc. booting
seems to work like expected.
Thanks
Michael
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