On Fri 04 Jul 2014 at 15:17:14 -0400, Kynn Jones wrote: > In an installation from CD (or, second best: USB stick) with no internet > access, how can I make a preseed.cfg file available to the Debian installer > as early as possible in the install sequence? > > The preseed.cfg originally lives in a separate USB stick. (I don't want to > burn the preseed.cfg into the installation CD, since I still want to be > able to tweak it easily.)
Not having the preseed file in the initrd rules out making a preseed.cfg file available earlier than you aleady do. > I found one approach, but it's laborious enough to make using a preseed.cfg > hardly worth it. Basically, I hit TAB to edit the Graphic Install menu > option; I add priority=critical auto=true > file=/unavailable/path/to/preseed.cfg; I hit enter and let the installer > fail to find the preseed.cfg file; I get a shell and do Even with file=/path/to/preseed.cfg the installer will fail to find the file anyway because the device it is on has to be mounted. This you do below. > mkdir /mnt/usb && > mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb && > exit > > Then I select to re-read the preseed.cfg file from the installer's menu. What problem are you trying to solve? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/04072014211555.b18b93681...@desktop.copernicus.demon.co.uk
