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How can partman partition more than one disk in a Debian installer preseed file?

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Mar 15, 20268116 views
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Making partman partition a single disk is easy enough: Or the even simpler: But with more than one disk, none of the recipes I've found or written work. The installer gets to the screen where it asks for the partitioning method, and stalls there. I thought I had answered that question here: Even if…

Error Output

d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/xvda
d-i partman-auto/method string regular
d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe string \
      boot-swap :: \
        20…

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I haven't tried this on squeeze, but what I did for etch should still work. Untested: I'd have to dig up the reference where I found that trick -- it basically wipes out the disk's partition table and makes one giant partition.

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