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Bug#815344: preseeding: empty tasksel not possible



John Wyzer <john.wyzer@gmx.de> writes:

> Package: debian-installer
> Version: 20150422+deb8u3
> Severity: important
> Tags: d-i
>
> I used the current netboot.tar.gz for debian jessie from http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/ to create a pxe based preseeded installation.
> Everything works fine except the tasksel configuration.
> I don't want to execute any of the tasksel tasks.
> Whatever I do, the installer starts to install about 1500 packages including Xorg.
>
> I tried
> 	tasksel tasksel/first   multiselect

As far as I'm aware, that's all that should be needed.

I presume you're not doing anything complicated (like including other
preseed files that might set the setting back).

It might be worth checking that your setting really was applied by
flipping to the console once the install is underway (Ctrl-Alt-F2) and
running:

  debconf-get tasksel/first

to make sure it's empty.

You might also want to add DEBCONF_DEBUG=5 to your kernel command line,
to make the install much more verbose, which might let you work out
what's going on.

BTW The resulting syslog ends up as /var/log/installer/syslog on the
installed system.

Cheers, Phil.
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