Lenny 501 and presseding

[Frédéric DONNAT]

Hi all,

First of all, i hope i'm posting in the good mailing list... if not, please 
tell me where I should post.  ;)
In a second hand, I apologize for my bad english.. and I hope that everyone 
could understand.

I encounter some problems while trying to create my own lenny 5 preseeding file.
I want to preseed "everything" and then use the 'late_command in-target' in 
order to install my own debian package.

I could not successfully pressed some questions while partionning:

- Partition disks
+ First Question:
Partitionning method:
Guided - use entire disk
Guided - use entire disk and setup LVM
Guided - use entire disk and setup encrypted LVM
Manual

+ Second Question:
Select disk to partition
SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - ... VMWare, VMWare Virual 

- Launching late command
Here is my late_command (works fine under etch):
d-i preseed/late_command string in-target /cdrom/mailinblack/install.sh
I get an error: Failed to run pressed command
Execution of preseeded command "in-target 
/cdrom/mailinblack/install.sh" failed with exit code 1
In the Alt+F4 screen I get: in-target: chroot: cannot execute 
/cdrom/mailinblack/install.sh: No such file or directory


In my isolinux.cfg, I use the following command line options: DEBCONF_DEBUG=5 
dbg/flags=all-x
I've built my installation CD using Debian netinstall CD.

At that point it seems that the cdrom is not mounted when I chroot, so I try to 
mount it manually without any success... I've notioced that the install kernel 
is version 486 and the kernel I'm trying to install is 686 so I'll try to 
install a 486 kernel...

Everything work fine with debian etch. Could someone tell me what I'm missing ?

Thanks in advance

Fred

I use an etch preseeding file that I try to adjust to fit lenny requirement.
I've built it using:
 - debian installation manual
 - http://debian.org.tw/d-i samples
 - http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed link


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Re: Lenny 501 and presseding

[Frans Pop]

On Thursday 07 May 2009, Frédéric DONNAT wrote:
> I could not successfully pressed some questions while partionning:
>
> - Partition disks
>   + First Question:
>   + Second Question:

Check the *lenny version* of the installantion guide for the correct way 
to preseed this. There've been some changes since Etch.

> - Launching late command
>   Here is my late_command (works fine under etch):
>   d-i preseed/late_command string in-target
> /cdrom/mailinblack/install.sh I get an error: Failed to run pressed
> command
>   Execution of preseeded command "in-target
> /cdrom/mailinblack/install.sh" failed with exit code 1 In the Alt+F4
> screen I get: in-target: chroot: cannot execute
> /cdrom/mailinblack/install.sh: No such file or directory
>
> At that point it seems that the cdrom is not mounted when I chroot, so

AFAIK it should still be mounted at that point (late command is run at 07 
in finish-install, while the CD is only unmounted at 15).
Possibly something else went wrong earlier in the installation.

Cheers,
FJP

P.S. This is not the best list to report this. If you have any additional 
questions then please mail the debian-boot list and add the syslog from 
your install.
P.P.S. Only the installation guide is really reliable as documentation for 
preseeding. The other documents you used may be outdated or simply 
incorrect.


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