Bug#759290: debian-installer: 'Automated install' does not delay the locale and keyboard questions

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Control: tags -1 unreproducible

Andreas B. Mundt, le Mon 25 Aug 2014 23:19:03 +0200, a écrit :
> when experimenting with unattended installations using PXE-boot and
> preseeding d-i, I did not find the 'Automated install' (auto mode)
> working as described in [1]:
> 
>    The auto kernel parameter is an alias for auto-install/enable and
>    setting it to true delays the locale and keyboard questions until
>    after there has been a chance to preseed them ...
> 
> When I choose 'Automated install' from the 'Advanced options' menu,
> the first questions show up nevertheless (before setting up the
> network) and I have to answer them or preseed them on the kernel
> boot line.  Could it be that the delaying functionality got lost?

No, it is still there, but only if you provide some preseeding URL on
the boot line or CD image etc. Otherwise it will prompt for the URL, and
I guess that while at it, there's no point in not configuring the
keyboard before that.

At any rate, booting jessie b1 with the Automated install boot entry and
passing url=http://dept-info.labri.fr/~thibault/preseed-jessie.txt on
the kernel command line does install a Debian system without any prompt.

Samuel