Joerg Jaspert <joerg@debian.org> writes: > On 14500 March 1977, Andrey Yarkov wrote: >> I added the following to kernel parameters on Jessie-8.6.0 official installation DVD-1 >> auto=true url=http://my.ip.addr.ess/preseed.cfg >> but I got asked keyboard or locale related questions anyway. > > As expected, happens to network boot installs too. > >> Could it be that the delaying functionality got lost? > > I've always had to preseed the various questions asked before network is > available too. d-i offers a feature just for this: A series of short > options for the kernel commandline, see its documentation. If you set > them, it will run without asking anything. While it's true that you can do it that way, you should also be able to delay the pre-network questions with auto=true, and then preseed them in the network file. Here's a video of that working, using a d-i mini.iso, and typing (rather a lot of weirdness, but none of it to set the keyboard) at the boot prompt: https://jenkins.debian.net/view/lvc/job/lvc_debian-miniiso/331/artifact/results/Preseed_using_hands.com_with_checksum.mpg Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/ http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg, GERMANY
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