I have, but there has not been any response there.
I have gotten this working though, by going around it. From what I seem to be able to tell, the preseed file has to be on the same device that you are booting from.
I was curious if there was a way to do it without being the boot device though, seeing as I am fairly sure that you can host a preseed file on a webpage, and use it to boot.
The trick is to know the device name of the USB stick. The kernel might not be configured exactly the same as the actual OS you eventually install, but /hd-media is certainly a directory on the boot device. If your USB stick is visible and properly mounted, all you need is the correct path, but it might take more than that. You might have more luck by looking for information from Debian; the mechanism was developed on Debian, and is probably more used by distros built from Debian than on Ubuntu in particular.
Why don't you just run the whole installer from the thumb drive, though (provided it has enough space)?
Last edited by era; 09-12-2008 at 09:33 AM..
Reason: Boot off thumb drive, maybe?
That is what I eventually resulted to, was actually gunzip the initrd.gz file, and then cpio extract the initrd file, and placing the preseed.cfg in the initrd cpio file, so that it found it automatically, no additional boot parameters were required. Then, replacing the initrd.gz file with on whatever device I was using to boot, in this case the thumb drive.
Good afternoon!
Could you please clarify me how to use correct Debian's preseed file?
I have a kernel version 4.15.0-20-generic (Ubuntu 18.04) and default initrd (both downloaded from official repo)
Also I have a little kickstart file and main preseed cfg file
Installation start by iPXE... (4 Replies)
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d-i preseed/late_command string \
wget -O /target/root/start.bin 'http://abc.start.bin' \
&& in-target chmod 755 /root/start.bin \
My best guess is it would... (0 Replies)
Gurus,
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Hello there,
If you don't want to here the long version, but still want to answer my question, please skip down to THE BOTTOM!
You can probably tell what I want to do already from the title, so I'll sum up what I have already done real quick:
First off, for those that don't know, a preseed... (1 Reply)
hello all
im trying to use in sun Solaris the information received from the top command
now i several machines that dont have install the top program so when im running the script im geting error
saying after im running this code :
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