Re: "Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide" needs broader choice of examples

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>]

On 06/09/2020 01:24 PM, Holger Wansing wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:
> > I need to do a very atypical install.
> > It needs exactly one parameter to be pre-seeded.
> > I wish to set it at the boot prompt.
> >
> > An overview is given at
> > https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/i386/apbs02.en.html#preseed-auto
> > which in turn leads to
> > https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/i386/ch05s01.en.html#boot-screen
> > which says in part:
> > > If you wish or need to add any boot parameters for either the installer
> > > or the kernel, press Tab (BIOS boot), or e then down arrow three times
> > > then end (UEFI boot). This will bring the boot command for the selected
> > > menu entry and allow you to edit it to suit your needs.
> >
> > However I can find no examples of what that line would look like after
> > entering the pre-seeded parameter. The value I wish to use is:
> > > d-i base-installer/install-recommends boolean false
>
> It's fairly well documented in
> https://d-i.debian.org/doc/installation-guide/en.amd64/apbs02.html#preseed-bootparms
>
> And for your specific wishes, there is also an alias, see
> https://d-i.debian.org/doc/installation-guide/en.amd64/apbs02.html#preseed-aliases
>
> So you should be done with simply adding
> 	"recommends=false"
> to the said line.
>
>
> Holger

Thank you. I thought I understood what you just said. But just tried my 
interpretation of what you said and got a result that didn't make sense. 
I'm very tired, so suspect human error. Will try again in the morning.