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Re: Install from writeable USB



On Sun, 2015-05-31 at 11:54 -0700, Charles Chambers wrote:
> Hi, All:
> 
> I have a set of Dell Optiplex 620's for which I'd like to install Debian
> entirely hands off from a writeable USB stick.  It would seem to me that
> preseeding would figure into this process.
> 
> The problem I'm running into is that the isohybrid images are write only
> (when you dd them to a USB stick), and I can't find anything else that
> leads me in the right direction - which would be installing Debian from
> a writable USB stick.
> 
> Has no one done this before?  It's pretty common in the Windows world.
> 
> If the netinst image is the starting point, are any packages included
> with the image that shouldn't be strictly necessary just to accomplish
> the install and apt?  System utilities and KDE desktop both are
> variables when one is preseeding...

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed/EditIso

I think you could also grab the preseed over the network, or maybe grab
it from a second usb-stick?

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