Re: [preseed] multiple disks, rules to select the smallest one

2015-05-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Sandro Tosi mo...@debian.org (2015-05-27): Hello, in case a machine has just one disk, we can skip the d-i partman-auto/disk string device line and the d-i will do the right thing. Sometimes we also have machines with multiple drives, consider the now usual case of a fast SSD for

Re: [preseed] multiple disks, rules to select the smallest one

2015-05-29 Thread Geert Stappers
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 12:47:17PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 12:11:26PM -0400, Sandro Tosi wrote: ... In order to avoid writing a custom preseed file all the times, we're wondering if there is already a policy that would instruct d-i to use the smallest physical

[preseed] multiple disks, rules to select the smallest one

2015-05-27 Thread Sandro Tosi
Hello, in case a machine has just one disk, we can skip the d-i partman-auto/disk string device line and the d-i will do the right thing. Sometimes we also have machines with multiple drives, consider the now usual case of a fast SSD for the OS and a slower/larger spinning drive for data.

Re: [preseed] multiple disks, rules to select the smallest one

2015-05-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 12:11:26PM -0400, Sandro Tosi wrote: ... In order to avoid writing a custom preseed file all the times, we're wondering if there is already a policy that would instruct d-i to use the smallest physical drive on the system as the one to partition and use for installation