On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote: > Jon Dowland wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 04:13:17PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
>>> It appears to me that my preseed.cfg file is not being read at all. >> >> OK. I don't know the nature of the problem you are trying to fix, > > The nature of the problem is that I have found *NO NONE NADA* complete > explicit instructions of what to do when handed THREE objects: > 1. dedicated laptop capable of running Debian > 2. Debian 6.0.5 DVD 1 of 8 > 3. a USB stick which may be partitioned and formatted as required on which > can be placed a pressed.cfg. You can add "DEBCONF_DEBUG=5" to the kernel's boot options to see (hopefully!) on vt4 why your preseed file isn't being read/loaded. > What I have found is incomplete and conflicting descriptions of portions of > the procedure(s) required drawn from various Debian releases. http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.amd64/apbs02.html Whilst I agree that the actual preseed "verbs"/"options" aren't fully documented, I don't see what's incomplete or conflicting on the above page. >> but could >> it be reproduced/triaged in a virtual machine? It might be much >> quicker/easier >> to explore kicking off the installer in a VM, which you can >> interrupt/throw >> away and start again very quickly. > > Based on over 50 years of trouble shooting experience I cannot see the > benefit of adding a VM to the mix when the problem is lack of documentation. 50 years?! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=sxp3wgxiuzpbkw1dphlxuyueh-s+_xtrtdrkh3-u3k...@mail.gmail.com
