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Re: Netinst with preseed



On Wed 27 May 2015 at 08:06:33 -0700, Charles Chambers wrote:

> The objective is a unattended USB install with an edittable preseed.cfg,
> and optionally additional packages and firmware files included on the
> media.  Windows does it with a customizable unattended.txt (I think) and
> a system integration tool to select the installation options.

The original mail for this thread is at

   https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2015/05/msg00603.html

The question appears very clear

   > Anyone ever started from the netinst ISO image and added a preseed.cfg file? 

For some reason or other we have moved onto considering hd-media images.

The answer to the question above is "yes". It can involve adding a
partition to a thumb drive, formatting it with mkfs.vfat, putting the
preseed file etc  on it and booting with file=/mnt/preseed.cfg.


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