On Sat 05 Jul 2014 at 11:01:34 -0700, Kynn Jones wrote: > > On 07/04/2014 05:07 PM, Brian wrote: > > > > ...What I read him as saying he > > wants to do is to have the preseed file on a separate (writable) > > device, probably a USB stick, and have it be automatically accessed > > from the unchanging boot media.
I didn't write that, The Wanderer did. It seemed to me a reasonable aspiration. > Yes! That's exactly it. > > I already know one way to do it (which I described in my first post), > but it is laborious and error-prone. One extra step after booting d-i! But it can be avoided. > Basically, I'm looking for a convenient way to tell the Debian > installer: > > 1. mount /dev/sdb1 (with -t vfat), and look for a preseeds file > called preseed.cfg at the root directory of the mounted volume; It can be done but not with a netinst image or CD-1. The method is outlined in this thread. Please ask for details if anything is unclear. > 2. use the settings priority=critical auto=true Is "auto=true" an absolute requirement? Why? > (I think that one can do (2) through directives in preseed.cfg, but > I'm not sure. If true, then it all reduces to (1).) You can't. > The boot media does not have to be CD, but I strongly prefer it. It's > somewhat superstitious of me, I suppose, but I like the assurance that > it has not been modified, either by me or anybody else. Ok. > In addition, I figure that any method that works when the boot media > is CD will also work when the boot media is a USB stick, but the > converse does not necessarily hold. Therefore, a method that works > when booting from CD is bound to be more flexible. The converse had better be true. -- 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/20140705184300.gc27...@copernicus.demon.co.uk
