Re: Selecting partions to use via preseed.cfg
On Sat, Dec 07, 2013 at 11:54:44AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I am aware of the options demonstrated in
> http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/example-preseed.txt .
>
> They do not cover my case of interest.
> I am experimenting with various configurations of Debian.
> My procedure *REQUIRES* installing Debian to a specific partition of
> of a disk already containing data and possibly other installs.
>
If you have access to a spare machine, it is always worth experimenting on a machine
that contains no vital information and that contains nothing that you need to keep.
> I currently handle this by deleting all partitioning information fro
> my preseed.cfg .
> This forces manual intervention during which I specify which
> partition I wish to use (for / and swap).
>
If the free partition you have to install on is always the same one,
then you can script this with preseed. If grub will always be present on a boot
partition at the start of the disk, you don't care provided that your new install
will write a grub configuration that boots.
> This is the only point requiring manual intervention. I would like
> to eliminate it. The "partition recipe" approach is not suitable.
>
> Ideas?
> TIA
>
>
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