Thank you, Fernando - This was the ultimate solution. I placed my preseed.cfg in the same location and made references as you did, and it is now reading SOME of my preseed.cfg. Is there a specific order items need to be in the preseed.cfg?
What I am seeing now, when I launch the installer from the desktop (debian-installer-launcher) and when I run it form the boot menu, it preseeds the locale and language, but then ignores setting the hostname, does not use an apt-mirror (which is correct), then ignores the cd eject and reboot. Here is what I last tested (with comments):
### Lilypad Linux Preseed file
## Locale\Location\KB
## THESE WORK
d-i debian-installer/locale string en_US
d-i debian-installer/country string US
d-i debian-installer/language string en
#d-i localechooser/supported-locales multiselect en_US.UTF-8
d-i console-keymaps-at/keymap select us
d-i keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap select us
## Network Time and timezone info
d-i clock-setup/ntp boolean true
d-i clock-setup/utc boolean true
d-i time/zone string US/Mountain ## IGNORED
## Network Config (interface)
d-i netcfg/choose_interface select auto
## Hostname and info
d-i netcfg/hostname string LilypadLinux ## IGNORED
## Disk Partitioning ## All IGNORED
# The presently available methods are:
# - regular: use the usual partition types for your architecture
# - lvm: use LVM to partition the disk
# - crypto: use LVM within an encrypted partition
d-i partman-auto/method string regular
# You can choose one of the three predefined partitioning recipes:
# - atomic: all files in one partition
# - home: separate /home partition
# - multi: separate /home, /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions
d-i partman-auto/choose_recipe select atomic
d-i partman-partitioning/confirm_write_new_label boolean true
d-i partman/choose_partition select finish
d-i partman/confirm boolean true
d-i partman/confirm_nooverwrite boolean true
d-i apt-setup/use_mirror boolean false ## This one works
## Install Completion
# Hide the pesky install complete junk
d-i finish-install/reboot_in_progress note ## IGNORED
# Eject install cd media
d-i cdrom-detect/eject boolean true ## IGNORED
# reboot the system
# shutdown and halt
#d-i debian-installer/exit/halt boolean true
# shutdown and poweroff
#d-i debian-installer/exit/poweroff boolean true
# reboot
d-i debian-installer/exit/reboot boolean true ## IGNORED
I have tried many things, and it is quite possible I have removed\commented out items needed for these all to work
Thanks!
Zed
On 8/29/2014 3:06 PM, Fernando Toledo wrote:
On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 13:51:35 -0600, Zed wrote:
Thanks to Daniel on IRC with a little direction I learned why iti put my pressed on config/include.debian-installer
was skipping the preseed. Basically, I had not appended the parameters
to the boot options in isolinux. It is copying the preseed to the ISO
now, but it can't be located when the install is loading.
I have my preseed here:
/config/includes.binary/install/preseed.cfg
When I browse the built ISO I find my file here:
/media/cdrom0/install/preseed.cfg
But, when I launch the debian-installer from the liveCD desktop, or
from the boot menu I receive the error:
"The file needed for preconfiguration could not be retrieved from
file:///install/preseed.cfg [1]. The installation will proceed in
non-automated mode.
I have tried various boot options to resolve, but receive the same
error (with the file:/// [2] as entered of course):
append preseed/file=/install/preseed.cfg
append preseed/file=/media/cdrom/install/preseed.cfg
append preseed/file=/media/cdrom0/install/preseed.cfg
Getting close, but no cigar as of yet...
Zed
https://github.com/HuayraLinux/live-cd/tree/master/config/includes.debian-installer
then i modified the syslinux menu to include them appending the paremeter to the kernel (file=/pressed.cfg) :
https://github.com/HuayraLinux/live-cd/blob/master/config/includes.binary/isolinux/live.cfg
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