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Re: Installer suggestions



On Wed, 2025-08-06 at 14:09 -0700, Van Snyder wrote:
[...]
> > Have you tried preseeding? It allows you to provide answers to some or
> > all of the questions the installer will ask.
> > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/apb.en.html
> 
> This is complicated and tedious, especially for net install, and the documentation is opaque.

Not really. I followed these steps (there are multiple ways to preseed,
but this is the easiest from what I've seen):
1. Download a copy of
https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/example-preseed.txt
2. Go through it and set all the options correctly. If you don't know
what something does, check the preseeding docs.
3. Put this on a webpage that can be accessed by the machine getting
Debian installed (i.e. put it in a pastebin or git repo)[1]
4. Choose "automated install" from the installer grub menu. When it asks
you for the preseed file URL, you can provide the link to the raw
preseed file.

--
Maytham

[1] You can also put it on the installer drive or another USB and
reference it with a file:/// URI.

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