Re: installer preseeding - partitioning

[Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz>]

On Mon, 2011-04-25 at 18:27 +1200, Richard Hector wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've got a preseed file, with a partitioning recipe that I think is
> valid, but I'm having trouble getting past the partitioner with no
> interaction. Unfortunately the documentation is a bit lacking on how the
> various partman values interact.
> 
> This is the partitioning section of my preseed.cfg so far:
> 
> ## Partitioning ##
> d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/sda
> # d-i partman-auto/method string my-recipe
> # d-i partman-auto/choose_recipe select my-recipe
> d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe string my-recipe :: \
>     10240 10240 -1 ext4 \
>     $primary{ } \
>     $bootable{ } \
>     method{ format } \
>     format{ } \
>     use_filesystem{ } \
>     filesystem{ ext4 } \
>     mountpoint{ / } . \
>  \
>     2048 2048 2560 linux-swap \
>     $primary{ } \
>     method{ swap } \
>     format{ } .
> 
> d-i partman/confirm_write_new_label boolean true
> d-i partman/choose_partition \
>   select Finish partitioning and write changes to disk
> d-i partman/confirm boolean true
> 
> 
> I'm testing this with lenny/amd64 at the moment, as squeeze seems unable
> to detect the qemu hard drive in my kvm environment (and lucid gets
> frowned upon here - but has more or less the same issues :-)

Actually, I think I was wrong on 2 counts:

* lucid and lenny behave differently (lucid offers to resize my
partitions; also lucid detects /dev/sda while lenny detects /dev/hda).
* both seem to ignore my recipe completely.

Any tips?

Thanks,

Richard