Hi, Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote: > I need to do a very atypical install. > It needs exactly one parameter to be pre-seeded. > I wish to set it at the boot prompt. > > An overview is given at > https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/i386/apbs02.en.html#preseed-auto > which in turn leads to > https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/i386/ch05s01.en.html#boot-screen > which says in part: > > If you wish or need to add any boot parameters for either the installer > > or the kernel, press Tab (BIOS boot), or e then down arrow three times > > then end (UEFI boot). This will bring the boot command for the selected > > menu entry and allow you to edit it to suit your needs. > > However I can find no examples of what that line would look like after > entering the pre-seeded parameter. The value I wish to use is: > > d-i base-installer/install-recommends boolean false
It's fairly well documented in https://d-i.debian.org/doc/installation-guide/en.amd64/apbs02.html#preseed-bootparms And for your specific wishes, there is also an alias, see https://d-i.debian.org/doc/installation-guide/en.amd64/apbs02.html#preseed-aliases So you should be done with simply adding "recommends=false" to the said line. Holger -- Holger Wansing <hwans...@mailbox.org> PGP-Fingerprint: 496A C6E8 1442 4B34 8508 3529 59F1 87CA 156E B076
