On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote: > Tom H wrote: >> 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. > > That's the kind of information I wasn't finding. It's on [1]. It's also not a preseed-specific variable. >>> 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 > > I've read that section for older releases, but I wouldn't have looked at > that one in detail as I'm still in 32 bit mode. But in a quick read I saw a > couple of things I had figured out and found an explicit statement that > without setting a specific parameter it would not operate in what I assumed > would be its default mode {I need auto=true ;}. [2] has exactly the same para: But in both cases, "auto=true" is definitely needed. :) 1. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed 2. http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/apbs02.html -- 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=SwGXhtgo1DHj3MRVowDO6YbHzUMKaVTfvOUm0-Ed=n...@mail.gmail.com