Package: debian-installer
Severity: wishlist
(I have a feeling I already reported this and been tagged WONTFIX;
apologies if this is the case and I can't find it in the BTS.)
Currently AFAICT the preseed file must be supplied either within the
initrd, on local media (including the install CD), or via HTTP or FTP.
I would find it useful if the preseed file could be fetched via TFTP.
This is particularly useful when netbooting, as I already have the
netboot files in debian-installer/ -- it would be easy for me to have
a second tree d-i/{etch,lenny}/preseed.cfg.
This is also useful when doing "fake" netboots with qemu, because then
I could do something like
qemu -tftp d-i/etch/ -bootp preseed.cfg \
-kernel debian-installer/linux -initrd debian-installer/initrd.gz
without needing to run a separate http process. (QEMU has built-in
support for providing DHCP and TFTP to the VM, but not HTTP.)
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