It seems that the setting is not for fetching the preseed file but only for the mirror, which is required later on
I need to go through the proxy to fetch the preseed file. Von meinem iPhone gesendet > Am 28.09.2018 um 14:11 schrieb Patrick Hieber <p...@trickhieber.de>: > > Thanks - I'll give it a try > >> On 09/28/2018 11:09 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >>> On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 10:49:08AM +0200, Patrick Hieber wrote: >>> Dear all, >>> >>> I would like to automate a Debian installation with a pressed file. The >>> challenge I am facing is that I am forced to use a proxy to fetch the >>> preseed >>> conf file from the mentioned URL. Any ideas how to solve this? I have >>> checked >>> the developer website (http://hands.com/d-i/) but the proxy argument is not >>> mentioned. >> You can preseed any question from the kernel command line, including the >> proxy >> one. The general syntax is: >> >> question=value >> >> In the case of the proxy question, that would be: >> >> mirror/http/proxy=http://proxy.example.com:3128/ >> >
