I believe you're looking for a preseed file:

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed

Skylar

On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 5:36 AM, Adam Moskowitz <ad...@menlo.com> wrote:

> When I boot an RHEL/CentOS system from DVD or ISO, I can grab the system
> at the boot menu and set "inst.ks=<somtehing>" and have it use a ks.cfg
> I put on a USB stick.
>
> Is there an equivalent for Debian and if so, what it it? That is, what's
> the Debian equivalent of ks.cfg AND how do I specify it at boot time?
>
> No, I don't want to set up FAI or PXE boot or Puppet or Chef or anything
> like that. These are experimental systems that will eventually turn into
> "production" systems that are handled using 'real" automation, but for
> now, I just want to get a repeatable (and fairly minimal but still
> somewhat customized) system. Also, I can't take a snapshot of the first
> system after I build it and just make copies as needed. I'll be doing
> this 1 or 2 machines at a time, at most once every week or every other
> week for a month at most, then not again for several months or even not
> again for a year.
>
> Thanks,
> Adam
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