I removed all the partman related lines
and created a new preseed file. It works now on vm but has
issue with baremetal for which i'll start a new thread. This
is my complete preseed file for reference - http://paste.debian.net/88147/
Cheers,
Sandeep.
I think it was getting picky with no . after the partition
definition. I will be interested to see what issues you have with
baremetal that are do not exist for a VM