debian-installer automation talk

debuser
Sun, 09 Mar 2014 23:57:39 +0100

That will be brilliant. I hope it will be recorded for those of us who cannot attend in person. Many have found preseeding the installer very difficult to get right, owing to inadequate documentation and lack of diagnostic messages if the preseed file does not contain the correct incantation, and this leads to many hours lost repeating the installation trying different variants. I think this writer's experience is quite typical:

http://www.hps.com/~tpg/notebook/autoinstall.php

Once you eventually figure out the right preseed options for your setup though, the completely automated installation is a joy to use.