Not sure if this is the right mailing list, so if there is somewhere better to send this to, please let me know. I’ve been trying to automate an Ubuntu 12.04 unattended installation and cannot seem to get exactly what I’m after with regards to partitioning. I’ve tried several different ways using Kickstart, a preseed file, and some combination of both, to no avail.
The partitioning scheme in question involves a bunch of workstations with two drives, one larger than the other. I realized early on that there seems to be no support for automatically partitioning a second drive, so my first question is: Is there going to be support for partitioning a second or multiple drives via debian-installer in future Ubuntu releases? The partitioning scheme I want is fairly simple, but a key piece of it is that the first (smaller) drive has a (vfat) utility partition on it that needs to stay and while Kickstart will allow me the option of wiping all the Linux partitions, it seems to be confused by the second disk and still asks me which partitioning method to use (Guided or Manual) and doesn’t partition the drive. I tried preseeding the option indicated in the debug log (init_automatically_partition) using ‘biggest_free’ but that just seems to land me in an infinite loop instead of actually partitioning /dev/sda. My question for this is: What is the timing of Kickstart options versus preseed options? Is there some precedence I’m missing? Is there a bug with using Kickstart and having two drives? Next, since I couldn’t get Kickstart to do what I needed, I tried just using a preseed file but there’s no option for leaving any existing partitions intact within the partman-auto options. Is there any plan to allow for this in the future? Does it require something upstream from Debian? Lastly, I thought I might just work around this problem by using early_command and late_command, but apparently fdisk and sfdisk are not on the Alternate install CD any more. Is there any way these can be put back on? Any assistance or advice would be appreciated. Thanks for your time. -Roman -- Ubuntu-installer mailing list Ubuntu-installer@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-installer
