Re: installer preseeding - partitioning

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

On Mon, 2011-04-25 at 20:24 +1000, Sean Crosby wrote:


> I think what you are missing is the d-i partman-auto/method string
> regular line - from the example:
> 
> 
> # The presently available methods are: "regular", "lvm" and "crypto"
> d-i partman-auto/method string regular

Great, thanks - that seems to get it going :-)

Now that you point it out, of course, I can see it in the example -
though it's a bit unclear which bits are complementary and which are
contradictory :-)

> I also think there's a mistake in your formatting of the partition sizes. The format (as I know it) is
> 
> 200 20000 250 ext4 \
> 
> Which is min_size priority max_size
> 
> 
> I think it is also getting confused about the -1 in your / partition....

Other docs I've read say that's "use all of it"; it seems to be working.
I did have to reverse the order though - put the fixed-sized swap
partition first, and the root partition second.

Many thanks,

Richard