Hi Andrew,
We have built some Debian/Ubuntu snippets here locally but there is some hard coded
entries currently so we haven't released them publicly.
Be wary when he says that the RAID and LVM stuff is broken in preseed. It really isn't
broken, it just takes some getting used to. I've written a bit about dealing with
partman (Shameless plug) on my blog (
http://bit.ly/ZKBkdJ and
http://bit.ly/SYoSHe) if you
need some examples on how to use some of the advanced features disk features.Thanks for
the great blogs. Well written, clear, and understandable.
[...]
The logs are saved in /var/log/installer on the newly installed system so that you can
view them after the installation.
Again, thanks for the tip. Now it's much better. Look at busybox's command
list http://www.busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html, upon seeing the nc command, my eyes
lit up ;-) There should be a way to transfer the log during installation to the cobbler
server or any other server in a streaming fashion - a basis for building something like
anamon for RH alike systems.
Comments to the above idea welcome. I need to get to know about Debian installer to see
if there is a way to cook up something ...
Regards,
Andrew
Best,
-- Zack