Re: [Linuxcoe-devel] Instalinux

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

Carl,

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 03:25:31AM +0000, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> On Feb 19, 2008 6:11 PM, Carl Lowenstein <car...@gm...> 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:
> > >
> > > Configuring S35initrd-preseed
> > > The installer failed to process the preconfiguration file from
> > > file:///preseeed.cfg.  The file may be corrupt.
> > >
> > > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> 
> More bad news.  I just tried from <www.instalinux.com> creating an
> install CD image for Debian Etch.  It too has a file named preseed.
> It too bombs out with the message "The installer failed to process the
> preconfiguration file from file:///[preseed.cfg.  The file may be
> corrupt."

Ah, ok, so am I correct in assuming that you have setup a profile
and are trying to create a boot image?  If so, it appears as though
your disk partitioning information is not of the correct format
(although the provided example is far from being useful).

So can you try one of the following options:

  1) do not use a profile, but rather try thhe "custom" option on step #2,
     then you will get a step #4a, where you will select a scsi disk
     like sda

  2) follow the thread in

  	http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1804636&group_id=144250&atid=758200

     to modify your profile's disk partitioning section

> So I don't know who is doing something wrong.  If I makes any
> difference, I am running this on a Fedora Core 3 system, using Qemu to
> boot the .ISO image in an emulated machine.  I did try VMWare once
> with the Ubuntu image, and got the same error message.

As above, we provide a bad example (which I will try to get
fixed).

> I note that on the Instalinux web site, the configuration file is
> referred to as"preseed.txt" while the installer error message refers
> to it as "preseed.cfg" and the name as shown in the file system is
> "preseed".

IIRC, it actually searches for several names, and only the last
failed attempt is shown as an error,

bryang