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authorJoey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>2007-08-15 06:44:10 +0000
committerJoey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>2007-08-15 06:44:10 +0000
commit40304a8e28db67058670e42c027e5ce22e90335e (patch)
treeeecc9145a0f9c38c7aa83e9cdb67e83228d85187
parent19a9f4e33c5d29ddab2f2157dd88ed3fc968e86e (diff)
downloadinstallation-guide-40304a8e28db67058670e42c027e5ce22e90335e.zip
* Document how to preseed partman-auto to use only available disk, no matter
what it's name is.
-rw-r--r--debian/changelog6
-rw-r--r--en/appendix/preseed.xml5
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index fc924ecfe..6981e99b0 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -40,7 +40,11 @@ installation-guide (2007xxxx) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
booting from floppy is no longer supported for sparc.
* Document new apt-setup/services-select and related hostname preseeds.
- -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:13:18 +0200
+ [ Joey Hess ]
+ * Document how to preseed partman-auto to use only available disk, no matter
+ what it's name is.
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Aug 2007 02:43:09 -0400
installation-guide (20070319) unstable; urgency=low
diff --git a/en/appendix/preseed.xml b/en/appendix/preseed.xml
index b92607482..1448d3243 100644
--- a/en/appendix/preseed.xml
+++ b/en/appendix/preseed.xml
@@ -893,7 +893,10 @@ d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/discs/disc0/disc</phrase><phrase condition="le
# Alternatively, you can specify a disk to partition. The device name must
# be given in traditional non-devfs format.
# For example, to use the first SCSI/SATA hard disk:
-d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/sda</phrase>
+d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/sda
+# Note: If you want to use whatever disk is available, no matter
+# what its device name, comment the line above out. This will only work if
+# the system only has one disk.</phrase>
# In addition, you'll need to specify the method to use.
# The presently available methods are: "regular", "lvm" and "crypto"
d-i partman-auto/method string lvm