Re: installer preseeding - partitioning

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Richard Hector <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

On Mon, 2011-04-25 at 18:27 +1200, Richard Hector wrote:
Hi all,

I've got a preseed file, with a partitioning recipe that I think is
valid, but I'm having trouble getting past the partitioner with no
interaction. Unfortunately the documentation is a bit lacking on how the
various partman values interact.

This is the partitioning section of my preseed.cfg so far:

## Partitioning ##
d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/sda
# d-i partman-auto/method string my-recipe
# d-i partman-auto/choose_recipe select my-recipe
d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe string my-recipe :: \
10240 10240 -1 ext4 \
$primary{ } \
$bootable{ } \
method{ format } \
format{ } \
use_filesystem{ } \
filesystem{ ext4 } \
mountpoint{ / } . \
\
2048 2048 2560 linux-swap \
$primary{ } \
method{ swap } \
format{ } .

d-i partman/confirm_write_new_label boolean true
d-i partman/choose_partition \
select Finish partitioning and write changes to disk
d-i partman/confirm boolean true



This is my preseed (from Lucid):

d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/sda
d-i partman-auto/method string regular
d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe string physics-workstation :: \
200 20000 250 ext4 \
$primary{ } \
$bootable{ } \
method{ format } \
format{ } \
use_filesystem{ } \
filesystem{ ext4 } \
mountpoint{ /boot } . \
25000 20000 29000 ext4 \
method{ format } \
format{ } \
use_filesystem{ } \
filesystem{ ext4 } \
mountpoint{ /usr/local } . \
3000 20000 6000 ext4 \
method{ format } \
format{ } \
use_filesystem{ } \
filesystem{ ext4 } \
mountpoint{ /tmp } . \
18000 18000 21000 ext4 \
method{ format } \
format{ } \
use_filesystem{ } \
filesystem{ ext4 } \
mountpoint{ / } . \
1000 20000 300% linux-swap \
method{ swap } \
format{ } . \
1000 10000 1000000000 ext4 \
method{ format } \
format{ } \
use_filesystem{ } \
filesystem{ ext4 } \
mountpoint{ /scratch } .

d-i partman/confirm_write_new_label boolean true
d-i partman/choose_partition select Finish partitioning and write
changes to disk
d-i partman/confirm boolean true
d-i partman-partitioning/confirm_copy boolean true
d-i partman/confirm_new_label boolean true


I think what you are missing is the d-i partman-auto/method string regular
line - from the example:

# The presently available methods are: "regular", "lvm" and "crypto"
d-i partman-auto/method string regular


I also think there's a mistake in your formatting of the partition
sizes. The format (as I know it) is


200 20000 250 ext4 \


Which is min_size priority max_size


I think it is also getting confused about the -1 in your / partition....


Sean

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