Customize alternate install CD with UEFI?
Josef Wolf
jw at raven.inka.de
Wed Jul 20 20:58:29 UTC 2016
On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 09:06:13PM +0200, Josef Wolf wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 07:22:09PM +0200, Liam Proven wrote:
> > On 20 July 2016 at 19:04, Josef Wolf <jw at raven.inka.de> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 03:57:56PM +0200, Liam Proven wrote:
> > > The next question is, how to customize it? For the traditiona BIOS, I gave
> > > isolinux the following line to start preseeding:
> > >
> > > append debian-installer/locale=de_DE.UTF-8 console-setup/ask_detect=false \
> > > keyboard-configuration/layoutcode=de \
> > > keyboard-configuration/variantcode=nodeadkeys \
> > > file=/cdrom/preseed/s-test.seed \
> > > initrd=/install/initrd.gz quiet DEBCONF_DEBUG=5 --
Found it! This belongs into boot/grub/grub.cfg
Preseed EFI boot works now :-))
Thanks for the support!
> This is an asus bu201la-dt022g notebook with win8.1 preinstalled. I upgaraded
> to win10 and now I'd like to resize to install ubuntu.
>
> The origial partitions are like this:
>
> Disklabel-Type: gpt
> part start end sectors size type
> sda1: 2048 206847 204800 100.0m FAT32 ESP (EFI system)
> sda2: 206848 468991 262144 128.0m ----- MSR (M$ reserved)
> sda3: 468992 390236111 389767120 185.9g NTFS Primär (C: M$ basic data)
> sda4: 390236160 391174143 937984 458.0m M$ recovery environment
> sda5: 391174144 924344319 533170176 254.2g MS basic data (D:)
> sda6: 924344320 976773119 52428800 25.0g Win recovery environment
>
> My goal is to free as much as possible for ubuntu, but still keep a "usable"
> win10. I don't really need win, it's just for the case...
My current plan is:
1. delete sda4 and sda6 (assuming, windows don't really need them?
2. resize sda3 (Windows C:) to about 50G (is this enough?)
3. move+resize sda5 to the end of sda3
4. Create ubuntu partitions as usual.
Will the d-i partitioner properly shrink the partition? Or will I need to
defragment the disk before shrinking it?
> > > BTW: When the EFI-installer starts, the partition /dev/sda (is this the EFI
> > > partition) is already mounted and the installer complains that it is mounted.
> > You must be *very* careful to use the right words.
>
> Argh! the bad wording comes from the installer. It says:
>
> "the following drives have mounted partitions: /dev/sda"
>
> The mounted partition is /dev/sda1, the EFI partition from the hard drive.
Should I leave it mounted during install or should I umount it?
Why is it mounted at all?
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Josef Wolf
jw at raven.inka.de
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