On 7/9/2016 4:00 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:
[snip]What I'd like to find which I've had no luck with so far, is finding a Debian installer cmdline option to skip the waste of time that is installation of any bootloader. My disks get generic MBR code and Grub installed by me before any OS gets installed. Thus, I have no need to see warnings about blocklists and unreliability from installers trying to do what I don't want or need doneIf you do the installation in expert mode, you can skip the step to install a boot loader. But that's in interactive mode. I've never done an automated installation, so I don't know what can and cannot be done in that environment.
Preseed.cfg apparently can do everything except "walk the dog".[Well really customized partitioning is annoying. But that is documented.] I tend to do multiple installs as I am experimenting with having Debian to do things in *MY* idiosyncratic way. I started with using EXPERT mode but found repetitive typing annoying. An appropriately edited preseed.cfg allows me to automate all options except the particular feature(s) of interest.
My only problem is finding a *SINGLE* references which lists *ALL* the choices which can be preseeded.
I find Debian documentation to frequently resemble the early _CPM-80 Manual_. It's all there but finding it can me daunting.