On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 6:54 PM, T o n g <mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com> wrote: > On Sun, 02 Sep 2012 15:56:03 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: >>> >>> If normally booted, my USB key would be sdc, should I use >>> >>> preseed/file=/sdc/path/preseed.cfg >>> >>> or /mnt/sdc or /media/its_label, or...? >> >> You would need to determine what the path to the install media would be >> at boot time. I would manually boot the installer and then do Alt-F2 >> and then return to get a text console. Then I would inspect the disks >> there to see where the installer is mounted. Then use that path. > > wow, I was planning to boot from CD and put preseed.cfg on USB, which > will definitely make things even more complicated. You mean using Alt-F2 > to get a text console even before boot up process begins? IIRC, the text > console will not be available only until the boot up process is almost > half way through. I guess you are right, preseed.cfg has to be on the > boot up media. But still, its path is for the installer, which can be > entirely different than the normal /mnt/... thing. > > Now back to the very beginning, is this automated preseeded installation > a feature only provided by kernel? Is the preseeded installer available > only at boot time, or there is a tool that I can use after the system has > booted, like debootstrap. Is it doing installation from the CD or from > the Internet? I mean, do I have to user a certain CD, eg Debian > installation CD, or it has nothing with the CD media so I can put the > proper boot up instruction in my general-purpose, multi-boot USB key? Eg, > > kernel linux > append auto=true priority=critical preseed/locale=en_US kbd-chooser/ > method=us preseed/url=http://192.168.13.184/preseed-files/preseed.cfg > ramdisk_size=14984 root=/dev/rd/0 initrd=initrd.gz > > (copied from http://serverfault.com/questions/143296/how-to-get-http- > preseed-to-work-correctly-on-ubuntu-10-04-lts-lucid) > > Furthermore info about my preseed testing: to speed up reboot & testing, > I'm testing with VirtualBox, using ISO file as its CD. The ISO that I'm > testing now is Ubuntu (because that's the one people most blogged about). > That one (Ubuntu 12.04) has problem with DNS resolving at boot up time, > so I was forced to consider providing preseed.cfg from USB, which now I > think maybe even more troublesome. It'd be much better if the boot > process can be decoupled from the preseeded installation.
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