On Sun, 2015-05-31 at 11:54 -0700, Charles Chambers wrote: > Hi, All: > > I have a set of Dell Optiplex 620's for which I'd like to install Debian > entirely hands off from a writeable USB stick. It would seem to me that > preseeding would figure into this process. > > The problem I'm running into is that the isohybrid images are write only > (when you dd them to a USB stick), and I can't find anything else that > leads me in the right direction - which would be installing Debian from > a writable USB stick. > > Has no one done this before? It's pretty common in the Windows world. > > If the netinst image is the starting point, are any packages included > with the image that shouldn't be strictly necessary just to accomplish > the install and apt? System utilities and KDE desktop both are > variables when one is preseeding...
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed/EditIso I think you could also grab the preseed over the network, or maybe grab it from a second usb-stick? -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5
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