On Sun 31 Jul 2022 at 17:19:22 (+0100), Piscium wrote: > 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! :-)
With a single machine, I wouldn't have thought that Automatic Install was worth it. I don't use it for six heterogeneous machines. What I do automate is the next step, a script to: set up etckeeper and supplementary users, tweak the locale, console and keyboard, and install a large number of "top-level" packages common to them all (using apt-get -y install), with apt-listbugs and needrestart at the end, followed by apt-get update to fill apt-file's cache. Cheers, David.
