Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-12-02 Thread Frans Pop
Sorry for late reply, still working through backlog... CC'ing because of that. On Thursday 23 November 2006 22:32, David Härdeman wrote: I think we have two options: 1) Default to method regular If partman-auto/disk=/dev/* and partman-auto/method is not set, then default partman-auto/method

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-23 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 17 November 2006 11:28, David Härdeman wrote: On Fri, November 17, 2006 10:21, Frans Pop said: Because the method is not a question as such when using preseeding. We should handle the situation where partman-auto/disk is preseeded but partman-auto/method is not more gracefully

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-23 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 17 November 2006 13:36, Olaf van der Spek wrote: Frans Pop wrote: That is probably not supported. Please see the example in the development version of the manual: http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/apbs04.html#preseed-partman Why not? The technical reason is probably that

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-23 Thread David Härdeman
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 02:48:13PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Friday 17 November 2006 11:28, David Härdeman wrote: On Fri, November 17, 2006 10:21, Frans Pop said: Because the method is not a question as such when using preseeding. We should handle the situation where partman-auto/disk is

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-17 Thread David Härdeman
On Thu, November 16, 2006 20:54, Olaf van der Spek said: David Härdeman wrote: On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 07:50:11PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: CPU usage appears to be 100%, so I suspect an infinite loop. Could you change to VT2 (alt + f2) while its in this loop, run ps ax and see what

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-17 Thread David Härdeman
On Thu, November 16, 2006 20:54, Olaf van der Spek said: David Härdeman wrote: On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 07:50:11PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: Olaf van der Spek wrote: David Härdeman wrote: Dennis, Olaf...could you try changing the partman-auto/disk entry to partman-auto/select_disk in

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-17 Thread ovdspek
On Thu, November 16, 2006 20:54, Olaf van der Spek said: David Härdeman wrote: On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 07:50:11PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: Olaf van der Spek wrote: David Härdeman wrote: Dennis, Olaf...could you try changing the partman-auto/disk entry to partman-auto/select_disk in

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-17 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 398333 partman-auto severity 398333 important retitle 398333 preseeding: strange behavior when disk preseeded but method not thanks On Friday 17 November 2006 09:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your recipies are missing the partman-auto/method entry which you need in addition to

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-17 Thread David Härdeman
On Fri, November 17, 2006 9:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: David Härdeman wrote: Your recipies are missing the partman-auto/method entry which you need in addition to partman-auto/disk (and forget what I said about partman-auto/select_disk). I'll try that one. But why does it only ask the disk

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-17 Thread David Härdeman
retitle 398333 partman-auto/method not mentioned in example-preseed.txt thanks On Fri, November 17, 2006 9:38, Dennis.Hoppe said: Hi David, thx for the information. but in this case the preseed.conf from http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/example-preseed.txt is obsolete. Yes, that should

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-17 Thread David Härdeman
On Fri, November 17, 2006 10:21, Frans Pop said: On Friday 17 November 2006 09:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But why does it only ask the disk question and not the method question if you forget both? Because the method is not a question as such when using preseeding. We should handle the

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-17 Thread Frans Pop
retitle 398333 preseeding: strange behavior when disk preseeded but method not thanks Let's not use the same BR for different issues... On Friday 17 November 2006 11:21, David Härdeman wrote: thx for the information. but in this case the preseed.conf from

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-17 Thread Olaf van der Spek
David Härdeman wrote: On Fri, November 17, 2006 9:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: David Härdeman wrote: Your recipies are missing the partman-auto/method entry which you need in addition to partman-auto/disk (and forget what I said about partman-auto/select_disk). I'll try that one. But why does

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-17 Thread Olaf van der Spek
Frans Pop wrote: reassign 398333 partman-auto severity 398333 important retitle 398333 preseeding: strange behavior when disk preseeded but method not thanks On Friday 17 November 2006 09:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your recipies are missing the partman-auto/method entry which you need in

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 17 November 2006 12:59, Olaf van der Spek wrote: I did have d-i partman-auto/init_automatically_partition select Guided - use entire disk That is probably not supported. Please see the example in the development version of the manual:

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 17 November 2006 13:36, you wrote: Why not? A similar entry is shown in lines 3 and 4 of that manual. Only for using available free space, not for formatting an entire disk. pgpLxPWVwP6bX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-17 Thread Olaf van der Spek
Frans Pop wrote: On Friday 17 November 2006 12:59, Olaf van der Spek wrote: I did have d-ipartman-auto/init_automatically_partition select Guided - use entire disk That is probably not supported. Please see the example in the development version of the manual:

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-17 Thread Olaf van der Spek
Frans Pop wrote: On Friday 17 November 2006 13:36, you wrote: Why not? A similar entry is shown in lines 3 and 4 of that manual. Only for using available free space, not for formatting an entire disk. You're right, I just copy/pasted that from running the installer manually and it seems to

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-16 Thread Olaf van der Spek
Geert Stappers wrote: Op 15-11-2006 om 17:18 schreef Olaf van der Spek: Hi, I've got the same problem. It'd be nice if there was a way to tell the installer to automatically choose a disk, especially in single-disk systems. Attached is a disk recipe that I used about a year ago. It allowed

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-16 Thread David Härdeman
Dennis Hoppe said: 1. debian installer asks at which harddisk he should install debian etch. but i have only one harddisk at my server. ... d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/discs/disc0/disc On Wed, November 15, 2006 17:18, Olaf van der Spek said: I've got the same problem. Dennis,

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-16 Thread Olaf van der Spek
David Härdeman wrote: Dennis Hoppe said: 1. debian installer asks at which harddisk he should install debian etch. but i have only one harddisk at my server. ... d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/discs/disc0/disc On Wed, November 15, 2006 17:18, Olaf van der Spek said: I've got the same

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-16 Thread Olaf van der Spek
Olaf van der Spek wrote: David Härdeman wrote: Dennis Hoppe said: 1. debian installer asks at which harddisk he should install debian etch. but i have only one harddisk at my server. ... d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/discs/disc0/disc On Wed, November 15, 2006 17:18, Olaf van der Spek

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-16 Thread David Härdeman
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 07:50:11PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: Olaf van der Spek wrote: David Härdeman wrote: Dennis, Olaf...could you try changing the partman-auto/disk entry to partman-auto/select_disk in your preseed files and see if that fixes things After adding that line d-i

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-16 Thread Olaf van der Spek
David Härdeman wrote: On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 07:50:11PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: Olaf van der Spek wrote: David Härdeman wrote: Dennis, Olaf...could you try changing the partman-auto/disk entry to partman-auto/select_disk in your preseed files and see if that fixes things After

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-16 Thread Joey Hess
Olaf van der Spek wrote: It'd be nice if there was a way to tell the installer to automatically choose a disk, especially in single-disk systems. d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/discs/disc0/disc d-i partman-auto/method string regular Works fine for me. -- see shy jo

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-16 Thread Geert Stappers
Op 16-11-2006 om 09:38 schreef Olaf van der Spek: Geert Stappers wrote: Attached is a disk recipe that I used about a year ago. It allowed me to do a complete automatic install. joke might=a bad joke a Hands free install /joke I'm curious if it still works. Where in the recipe do you

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-15 Thread Olaf van der Spek
Hi, I've got the same problem. It'd be nice if there was a way to tell the installer to automatically choose a disk, especially in single-disk systems. -- Olaf van der Spek http://xccu.sf.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-15 Thread Geert Stappers
Op 15-11-2006 om 17:18 schreef Olaf van der Spek: Hi, I've got the same problem. It'd be nice if there was a way to tell the installer to automatically choose a disk, especially in single-disk systems. Attached is a disk recipe that I used about a year ago. It allowed me to do a complete