Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm having several problems getting desired results from preseeding. > My Environment: > No internet/LAN > Install media > Debian GNU/Linux 7.1.0 "Wheezy" - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 20130615-21:54 > preseed.cfg on USB stick You and Brian and I had an good discussion about this last year. Well I thought Brian and I had a great discussion anyway. :-) http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/12/thrd2.html#00516 I still think you should consider a LAN (local, with emphasis on local, network) for your case. I understand you don't want to use a WAN in any way. That's fine. But a LAN is not a WAN. Second best I think you should create a custom initrd on your usb installation image. Then put those early preseed questions there. That seems the most trouble free way. I should play with the USB preseed. I don't know enough about it. But reading through the docs it just didn't seem like the best way to do things. Which is why I headed straigth for the initrd preseed. > # To get a list of every possible question that could be asked > # during an install, do an installation, and then run these commands: > # debconf-get-selections --installer > file > # debconf-get-selections >> file Just a general comment about that strategy. That is a good way to get a raw dump of everything. I have even seen it recommended to use that file as the preseed file. But I think that is not maintainable. It is too much of a raw dump. I did that too originally. But then I found it better to list the minimum configuration needed and to comment each one appropriately. So while it is reasonable to start out that way eventually you outgrow it. > Unfortunately when I try bash responds "command not found". > The existing install was a manual install from DVD1 using default > answers except for user/password/etc. Confirmed debconf installed by > checking with synaptic. Install debconf-utils. /usr/bin/debconf-get-selections is in the debconf-utils package. There are two ways to find out what package contains a file. # apt-get install apt-file # apt-file update $ apt-file search /usr/bin/debconf-get-selections debconf-utils: /usr/bin/debconf-get-selections And there is an online search form for just such things too. http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages Scroll down to "Search the contents of packages". Paste in the file path /usr/bin/debconf-get-selections. Optionally set the Distribution. Click "Search". File Packages /usr/bin/debconf-get-selections debconf-utils Bob
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