Control: retitle -1 installation-guide: add information about how to append boot parameters to the installer?
Ernesto Alfonso <erjoa...@gmail.com> wrote: > The docs for preseeding debian recommend pressing ESC after entering > the graphical installer menu: > > > > Loading the preseeding file from a webserver > > Most install methods you can interrupt early on and add a URL to a preseed > > file, for an almost fully automated installations. Here exemplified with > > the graphical installer: > > > > When the graphical installer boot menu appears, press ESC > > > > (Type "help" if you want view generic help) > > Type "auto url=http://webserver/path/preseed.cfg";, replacing the URL with > > the address to your preseed configuration file > > > > But when pressing ESC after selecting the debian bookworm graphical > installer, nothing happens. > > I am using the amd64 DVD-1 ISO image: debian-12.0.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso I found that you refer to the Debian Wiki at https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed when you talk about "docs for preseeding debian" above. Please note, that the Wiki is not the "official" documentation for our installer. That would be the installation-guide, see https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual A chapter about preseeding installation is at https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/apb.en.html That being said, I see that the information on the Wiki page you mentioned is outdated and thus no longer working. I have updated it now in that regard. Moreover, I notice that we probably have some deficit in the installation-guide, when it comes to information about how to append boot parameters to the installer (at least for some architectures). For amd64 and ii386 that is mentioned in chapter "5.1.5. The Boot Screen" see https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch05s01.en.html#boot-screen and s390x has it in "5.1.2. S/390 Boot Parameters" https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/s390x/ch05s01.en.html But for all other archs I cannot find any such information. Would it make sense to add that? (OTOH, nobody has complained about that for years, so maybe it's not necessary?) Holger -- Holger Wansing <hwans...@mailbox.org> PGP-Fingerprint: 496A C6E8 1442 4B34 8508 3529 59F1 87CA 156E B076
