Marc Haber <mh+debian-b...@zugschlus.de> writes: > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 06:33:55AM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: > >> Quoting Thomas Mieslinger (tho...@mieslinger.de): >> >>> Package: debian-installer >>> Version: 20110106+b1 >>> >>> Tried to autoinstall squeeze on dell poweredge hardware with drac5 >>> or idrac6 KVM. The installer always tried to use 40MB usb vflash >>> (/dev/sda) instead of the 1tb real harddrive (/dev/sdb). >> >> Hmmm, when there are several storage devices, you get, at some point, >> the choice of what drive the installation should be made to. > > Thomas is talking about unattended installation of an obscene number > of servers, so "getting a choice" is not the intended behavior. > >> So, what exactly makes you think that the installer "prefers" USB >> block devices? > > I guess that he would prefer to have USB block devices treated with > lower (lowest?) precedence over "real" storage devices, which > can/should avoid a prompt which may be undesireable during an unaended > install.
I don't think any concept of "preference" is present in the partitioner. However, let me quote the preseeding documentation: # This command is run immediately before the partitioner starts. It may be # useful to apply dynamic partitioner preseeding that depends on the state # of the disks (which may not be visible when preseed/early_command runs). #d-i partman/early_command \ # string debconf-set partman-auto/disk "$(list-devices disk | head -n1)" Isn't this something you could use? -- Regards, Feri. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87k4gkrvdw....@tac.ki.iif.hu