Re: preseed install using the business card CD

[Tim Edwards <timothy.edwards.ext@siemens.com>]

Tim Edwards wrote:
> I'm trying to do a preseeded install using the business card cd from 
> http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/
> The preseed file points the installer to a local package repository 
> available over http.
> However after booting off the CD I keep getting the message that the CD 
> is not a debian CD "cdrom-detect: The available CD is not a Debian CD!" 
> in syslog. Why would this be?
>
> I've modified the isolinux.cfg file on the CD to have the following:
> LABEL install
>         kernel /install.386/vmlinuz
>         append initrd=/install.386/initrd.gz priority=critical 
> locale=de_DE console-setup/layoutcode=de_DE netcfg/wireless_wep= 
> netcfg/choose_interface=eth0 netcfg/get_hostname=localhost 
> DEBCONF_DEBUG=5 url=KICKSTARTFILEURL --
>
> (obviosuly sub the real URL for KICKSTARTFILEURL)
>
> Anyone have any ideas why this is not being seen as a Debian CD or why 
> it hasn't just gone of to the network repos?
>
> Thanks
>
> Tim

Found the problem, I forgot to copy the .disk subdirectory from the CD 
image into my customised copy