Re: [Linuxcoe-devel] Instalinux

[Bryan G. <Bry...@HP...>]

Carl,

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 02:11:09AM +0000, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> On Feb 19, 2008 12:16 PM, Carl Lowenstein <car...@gm...> wrote:
> > We discussed Instalinux at the Score conference in Los Angeles a week
>                                                          SCALE  :-)
> 
> > or so ago.  Since then I have had some time to try it.  I used the web
> > site <www.instalinux.com> to construct a CDrom for installation of
> > Ubuntu 7.10.  Booting the CD either with an emulator or with a real
> > computer leaves me at the error message:

Thanks for contacting me, sorry you are having troubles.

> > Configuring S35initrd-preseed
> > The installer failed to process the preconfiguration file from
> > file:///preseeed.cfg.  The file may be corrupt.

It took me a couple of tries to come close to replicating your issue.

Can you verify that during the design process, on step 4a, that you
did in fact pick the correct disk type.  From what I have seen wrt
Ubuntu, is that SATA drives (and even some ATA/IDE) drives are showing
up as SCSI (ie. sda) during the installation process.

The images I generate seem to work fine on all the VMs I have tried,
but I do recall having a similar issue on some laptop installs.

> > When I loop-mount the .ISO image and look at it, I find a file
> > "preseed" with no .cfg extension.  It contains a set of instructions
> > for performing the installation.  Presumably the program  that
> > produced the file and the program that uses it have gotten out of
> > sync.
> >
> > I have thought about remastering the .ISO image to change the name of
> > the file, but have not yet gotten around to it.
> >
> > Setting up my own local copy of the Linux COE system is rather more
> > than I really wanted to do, but it might be educational.
> 
> Late-breaking news.  I just remastered the .ISO image making no
> changes except to rename preseed to preseed.cfg.  Didn't help.  Boots
> as expected, but still came up with the same error message.

This would match with the above.  However, if this doesn't solve
your issue, please let me know.  I know that the instalinux site
is running a bit older version of LinuxCOE, but I can nudge the
owner to upgrade as well.

> I don't know enough about preseed files to know whether the contents
> of the file are significant here.  The name change doesn't seem to do
> anything for me.

And FWIW, you can view the preseed file on the last page, link below
the image download.  This is the same file that is embedded in the
ram disk for use by the installer. 

bryang

PS - I have copied the developer's list as well, in case their
	collective eyes can see another possible cause.

>     carl lowenstein         marine physical lab     u.c. san diego
>                                                  clo...@uc...