Hi, Martin McCormick wrote: > Maybe I am missing something obvious but is there a way > to boot the CD, select language and keyboard and then skip > directly to the rescue shell?
Trying it with qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 512 -cdrom debian-9.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso I select menu item "Advanced options" and then menu item "Rescue mode". Now i get to choose by menus: Language, Country, Keymap. (Some internal retrieving installing and configuring happens.) I get asked for: Hostname, Domain name. I shall select time zone. (Now it is unhappily gnawing on the sparse virtual hardware ...) I shall select a driver because no disk was found. I select: "continue with no disk drive". It complains about no partitions. I use the "<Continue>" button. A menu "Rescue operations" appears, offering two items: Execute a shell in the installer environment. Reboot the system. I chose the first one and get a confirmation button about "Executing a shell". I use "<continue>". A prompt "~#" appears. Input line "ls -l" produces what can be expected. "shutdown -h now" does not poweroff, though, but only brings me back to the first Debian installer menu. Have a nice day :) Thomas
