Questions tagged [preseed]
Preseeding refers to the practice used to automate the installation of Debian GNU/Linux and many of its derivative distributions in a non-interactive manner. This is done by providing answers to the installer questions in a format file known as a preseed file.
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Preseed file bad configuration using UEFI and LVM
I just changed my preseed file from legacy to UEFI installation. I'm using LVM with the following custom recipe, in order to specify size of swap, root, home, var & tmp. To make it works in UEFI I ...
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Debian virsh-install unattended install stuck at "loading initial ramdisk" on first boot after install
Installing Debian on a virtual machine interactively: virt-install --virt-type kvm --name debian-13-x64 \ --memory 4096 \ --vcpus 4 \ --cdrom /mnt/data/iso/debian-testing-amd64-DVD-1.iso \ --os-...
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Why is Debian preseed not partitioning a volume group?
Why does my preseed never create a volume group? Does anyone know what option I might be missing from my config? d-i partman-lvm/device_remove_lvm boolean true d-i partman-lvm/confirm ...
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Debian 12 Preseed and Incorrect Swap Size
this is about Debian 12 and partman. Swap is getting the incorrect size. All other partitions / lv's have the expected size. However, swap just doesn't seem to listen. I want 4GB, but I'm getting ...
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Debian preseed installation is failing if there a previous OS installed
I am trying to automate the install of Debian 12. It is working correctly when I wipe the disk off using a live cd but I want the preseed iso to wipe the disk off instead and continue with ...
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Automatic installation using Debian with preseed inserted into initrd ignores keyboard configuration
This is my full preseed.cfg: # Locales d-i debian-installer/language string en_GB:en d-i debian-installer/country string ES d-i debian-installer/locale string en_GB.UTF-8 # Keyboard d-i keyboard-...
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Best practice for including custom .deb in Debian preseed
I have a bootable Debian 11 USB drive, and I'm writing a preseed configuration file to be loading at installation time. I've written a custom app.deb (not the actual name), and my goal is to have it ...
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Debian net install to preseed hostname and domain name
Basically the opposite of Debian preseed: How to force prompt for hostname and domain? With the new Debian bullseye release, the net install is asking me for hostname and domain name. How to preseed ...
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