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  • Testing CD preseed oops

    From Charles Curley@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jul 28 22:00:01 2024
    I have the latest testing netinst (20240722-03:17), and would like to
    install it on a virtual machine. I have a preseed file on a USB stick.
    As this is a virtual machine, the virtual hard drive is at vda, and the
    USB stick shows up at sda.

    When I go to load the debconf file, the installer doesn't find it. I
    then go to a console and manually mount the USB stick on /media. I can
    then ls the stick, more the preseed file, etc. When I then go back to
    the installer, it still cannot find the preseed file, and the USB stick
    has been unmounted.

    This has worked in the past.

    I boot from the help screen with the command line:

    expert auto file=/media/preseed.cfg

    I notice that the error message indicates that the installer failed to
    process "file:///media/preseed.cfg" (note the three slashes).

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  • From john doe@21:1/5 to Charles Curley on Sun Jul 28 22:50:01 2024
    On 7/28/24 21:55, Charles Curley wrote:
    I have the latest testing netinst (20240722-03:17), and would like to
    install it on a virtual machine. I have a preseed file on a USB stick.
    As this is a virtual machine, the virtual hard drive is at vda, and the
    USB stick shows up at sda.

    When I go to load the debconf file, the installer doesn't find it. I
    then go to a console and manually mount the USB stick on /media. I can
    then ls the stick, more the preseed file, etc. When I then go back to
    the installer, it still cannot find the preseed file, and the USB stick
    has been unmounted.

    This has worked in the past.

    I boot from the help screen with the command line:

    expert auto file=/media/preseed.cfg

    I notice that the error message indicates that the installer failed to process "file:///media/preseed.cfg" (note the three slashes).


    I guess, this would be more for the debian-boot mailing list, as
    apparently this is a regression.

    In my case, I use the Qemu's built-in tftp server.

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  • From Charles Curley@21:1/5 to john doe on Mon Jul 29 00:00:01 2024
    On Sun, 28 Jul 2024 22:39:47 +0200
    john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> wrote:

    I guess, this would be more for the debian-boot mailing list, as
    apparently this is a regression.

    Thank you. I have re-sent. (rather than resented :-)


    In my case, I use the Qemu's built-in tftp server.

    Thanks for the suggestion. I have used a tftp server (not qemu's) in the
    past, but that requires the network working before the installer can
    read the preseed file, and that means no preseeding the network.

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