Preseed for Wheezy - Example Help
I am trying to build a preseed file from my minimum initial install of
wheezy beta 1.
I have executed:
TARGET="/inventory"
debconf-get-selections --installer > $TARGET/list_packages_installer
debconf-get-selections > $TARGET/list_packages
list_packages_installer is about 1200 lines.
lineslist_packages is 345 lines.
Both have timezone and local information among other similarities. I
thought the _installer listing was to provide info on configuration and
the other was to provide info on installed packages. I did not see
anything about packages. It didn't seem that there was any logical
sequence of the lines; locale and timezone info was spread from the
beginning to the end.
On the initial installation, there are 2 SSDs and 1 CDROM. Each 60G SSD
had 6 labeled partitions. They are all observable from the console. In
the two listings, there is only one line that address drive size:
partman-partitioning partman-partitioning/new_partition_size string 6.0
GB
I did not see anything that suggested which drive or partition this was.
I used the preseed example file
(http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/example-preseed.txt which is
for squeeze) to help understand the content but it is still a challenge.
While I have read that the debconf output should not be as a preseed, it
looks functional. It just doesn't seem to have everything.
I have copied all of /etc as it may be useful to recovery my current
installation after trying the preseed but I haven't figured out how or
what the limitations are.
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