daily instal testing

[Carl Karsten]

Carl Karsten wrote:
>  >>> It does not hit the floppy at all, and big surprise, doesn't respect
>  >>> anything in /floppy/preseed.cfg.
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>
>  >> File preseeding doesn't take effect until after the language, country,
>  >> and keyboard questions have been asked.
>  >>
>  >
>  > Correct.  But it doesn't take place after all of that either.  It stops
>  > on "Configure the Network" which it seems should have been answered by :
>  >
>  > d-i    netcfg/choose_interface select auto
>  > d-i    netcfg/get_hostname    string unassigned-hostname
>  > d-i    netcfg/get_domain    string unassigned-domain
>  >
> 
> I put the file on a usb stick, and this didn't work either:
> 
>         append preseed/file=/hd-media/preseed.cfg 
> languagechooser/language-name=English countrychooser/shortlist=US 
> kbd-chooser/method=us initrd=ubuntu-installer/i386/initrd.gz 
> ramdisk_size=12890 root=/dev/rd/0 rw --
> 

I tried /hd-media/X.cfg it was ignored.  I couldn't find any error in 
syslog or messages.  If the preseed/file parameter is seen, but the file 
can't be opened, shouldn't it be reported somewhere?

Carl Karsten