On Sun, 31 Jul 2022 at 13:49, David <bouncingc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It seems like preseeding requires the building of an iso? If so that > > is not I was looking for as there is a bit of work to do that that! > > You haven't explained what you're thinking, or why, but it sounds wrong. > Most people would preseed a prebuilt installer image. > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed
I thought that to make the preseed work would require building an iso with a different initrd but that is not the case per the link you provided, one can preseed by putting a file somewhere where it can be fetched with a url. What I was looking for is a simple way to avoid the randomising step for my use case, which is an install just for me (not installing in a bunch of machines, for example, in which case preseeding would be very helpful to automate install). So I know now the easy way that takes a tenth of a second which is to click on the Cancel button! :-)
