Can no longer perform automated factory installs due to changes in partman-base
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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partman-base (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Colin Watson |
Bug Description
In the last upload of partman-base, 129ubuntu5, a preseed that allowed Dell factory installs to work was removed.
The preseed that was previously line previously used was:
d-i partman/
This would allow partman to ignore that a disk was mounted, and let you still install into the free space on the disk. This option was removed, so now automated installs on disks containing the recovery partition are not permitted.
(The reason why this is not generally supported is that it only works if the partitioning changes that are made are strictly after any mounted partition, and partman has no way to enforce that accurately as yet. However, it may be possible in special cases such as that used by Dell's recovery partition system.)
To clarify, when it pops up this warning, you can still manually make partitions and things will work.