relay23
August 29th, 2009, 04:45 AM
Greetings, I hope someone is feeling like a good samaritan because here's your opportunity to free someone from the depths of hell.
This is a preseeding question very similar to http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1128753
---Considering that question didn't ever get answered I don't think i'll have much luck but it's worth a shot
I have been trying for months now to get preseeding working and am finally at a point where I have exhausted all of the threads available. What I am doing should be very simple and I don't know why everyone can do it so easily.
The goal is mundane- to customize my installation so that the questions for language, keyboard type, time zone, user account setup, default apps, partition style, etc etc are all applied without user intervention. I have tried the most simple preseed value of just setting the time zone: "d-i time/zone string US/Central" and it still comes up as US/Eastern every time. The partitioning options also do not have any effect, the gui installer prompts for what to do about /dev/sda (which is unformatted).
Here's what I've done:
1. download latest jaunty installer iso, mount it and rsync to another folder
2. Edited isolinux/text.cfg to use a new filename 'xyz.seed'. I have used many different options in append but right now I am using the most simplistic version :
"append file=/cdrom/preseed/xyz.seed DEBCONF_DEBUG=5 boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.gz quiet splash --"
(I have also tried adding the locale options to ensure it loads that stuff first)
3. Created xyz.seed with minimal options (as aformentioned)
4. I have even captured the md5 and put in md5sum.txt like how ubuntu.seed is referenced and that doesn't work either. Once i start making changes I just delete the line in md5sum.txt to make sure it's not going to refuse it for a wrong entry match. Currently it is removed.
5. I then roll up the cd into the ISO.
I am booting it in Virtualbox, boots just fine. I can see any little simple modifications inserted in the boot options from text.cfg.I know after going to the desktop, after quitting out of the installer, and looking at /var/log/syslog and /var/log/casper.log that it is loading the right preseed file, and there are no errors present.
I am just completely stumped.. I have never actually seen it work so I don't know how it should even be behaving, but I would assume there should be SOME effect.
Please be the one to tell me I am doing something stupid and what the thing I'm forgetting is, I would be forever grateful.
Thanks in advance
Chris
This is a preseeding question very similar to http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1128753
---Considering that question didn't ever get answered I don't think i'll have much luck but it's worth a shot
I have been trying for months now to get preseeding working and am finally at a point where I have exhausted all of the threads available. What I am doing should be very simple and I don't know why everyone can do it so easily.
The goal is mundane- to customize my installation so that the questions for language, keyboard type, time zone, user account setup, default apps, partition style, etc etc are all applied without user intervention. I have tried the most simple preseed value of just setting the time zone: "d-i time/zone string US/Central" and it still comes up as US/Eastern every time. The partitioning options also do not have any effect, the gui installer prompts for what to do about /dev/sda (which is unformatted).
Here's what I've done:
1. download latest jaunty installer iso, mount it and rsync to another folder
2. Edited isolinux/text.cfg to use a new filename 'xyz.seed'. I have used many different options in append but right now I am using the most simplistic version :
"append file=/cdrom/preseed/xyz.seed DEBCONF_DEBUG=5 boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.gz quiet splash --"
(I have also tried adding the locale options to ensure it loads that stuff first)
3. Created xyz.seed with minimal options (as aformentioned)
4. I have even captured the md5 and put in md5sum.txt like how ubuntu.seed is referenced and that doesn't work either. Once i start making changes I just delete the line in md5sum.txt to make sure it's not going to refuse it for a wrong entry match. Currently it is removed.
5. I then roll up the cd into the ISO.
I am booting it in Virtualbox, boots just fine. I can see any little simple modifications inserted in the boot options from text.cfg.I know after going to the desktop, after quitting out of the installer, and looking at /var/log/syslog and /var/log/casper.log that it is loading the right preseed file, and there are no errors present.
I am just completely stumped.. I have never actually seen it work so I don't know how it should even be behaving, but I would assume there should be SOME effect.
Please be the one to tell me I am doing something stupid and what the thing I'm forgetting is, I would be forever grateful.
Thanks in advance
Chris