Yes sorry. The command: `~/my-simple-cdd$ build-simple-cdd`
> You may also want to use "--auto-profiles NAME" additionally Why? The documentation is not clear how --auto-profiles vs --profiles works. > It would be helpful if you could provide your proposed profile in > more detail. > Ideally, the exact commands you ran and the exact state of > the directory you're running them from. The command is above. The state is that ~/my-simple-cdd/ has a profiles/ directory. profiles/ directory contains custom.description, custom.packages, custom.postinst, custom.udebs, custom.preseed. Do you want the details from each of these? > * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or > ineffective)? I have been changing Debian versions, thinking the problem is bugs in simple-cdd, tasksel, or reprepro. Different erros come up with different versions. All are being reported. > If you want to override the built-in profiles, you need to create > replacement files (e.g. profiles/default.preseed, profiles/default.*), > though I would generally recommend providing additional profiles rather > than overriding the default profiles. I did the latter of these, added profiles/custom.X files. However when I do this, I get this current error where the CD is created and it looks like a normal Debian installer that asks quesitons that I believe are answered in the custom.preseed file. If I remove the default.X files in /usr, I get https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=958276 I also tried using a default-custom (as in, a template for X.preseed that I found online) and this also build a default Debian install CD. > * What was the outcome of this action? > > New error: $default_desktop not defined The error for this bug is not an error message, it is a working Debian installer CD that behaves different from I expect, becaues it behaves like a default Debian installer. But what is reporting error https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=958276 ($default_desktop) is the output of build-simple-cdd. > It will read the profiles from profiles in your working directory, This does not happen, but I am happy that you say this is what should happen. That tells me that there is a bug that is preventing my ~/my-simple-cdd/profiles/custom.X files being read. It is also possible I have a bad config but I don't think so because I tried a default custom config. Can you suggest a config I should use to test, that will create a Debian installer that is different from default to verify that this preseed is being read?
