On Sat 16 Oct 2021 at 18:47:25 (+0100), Brian wrote:
> On Sat 16 Oct 2021 at 10:12:34 -0500, David Wright wrote:
>
> [Lots of snipping]
>
> > If you want to see a blow-by-blow example of the partitioner, you
> > could revisit this post from a while back. IIRC the thread exercises
> > most of the wrinkles that could occur if the user interface is
> > misunderstood.
> >
> > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/02/msg00153.html
> >
> > It's difficult to envisage a time when each and every d-i screen would
> > be documented at this sort of level. I've no idea what the "limits" are
> > of which you speak.
>
> The Installer Guide dots many i's and crosses many t's. However,
> you yourself have sent many fine text screeshots of the installer
> in action to -user.(I have never found out how they were produced).
>
> One picture is worth..., etc. I wonder whether the Guide would
> benefit from an appendix showing something similar.
Expert install, step 1¹ is:
┌────────────────────┤ [?] Load installer components from CD
├────────────────────┐
│
│
│ All components of the installer needed to complete the install will be
loaded │
│ automatically and are not listed here. Some other (optional) installer
│
│ components are shown below. They are probably not necessary, but may be
│
│ interesting to some users.
│
│
│
│ Note that if you select a component that requires others, those components
│
│ will also be loaded.
│
│
│
│ Installer components to load:
│
│ … … … … … … … … … … … …
│
│ [*] network-console: Continue installation remotely using SSH
▒ │
│ … … … … … … … … … … … …
│
│
│
│ <Go Back> <Continue>
│
│
│
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
When you see the opportunity to execute this command, step 2 is:
┌────────────────┤ [?] Debian installer main menu ├────────────────┐
│ │
│ Choose the next step in the install process: │
│ │
│ … … … … … … … … … │
│ Detect network hardware │
│ Configure the network │
│ Continue installation remotely using SSH ← I faked this line ² │
│ Set up users and passwords │
│ … … … … … … … … … │
│ │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
┌────────────────┤ [!!] Continue installation remotely using SSH
├────────────────┐
│
│
│ You need to set a password for remote access to the Debian installer. A
│
│ malicious or unqualified user with access to the installer can have
disastrous │
│ results, so you should take care to choose a password that is not easy to
│
│ guess. It should not be a word found in the dictionary, or a word that
could be │
│ easily associated with you, like your middle name.
│
│
│
│ This password is only used by the Debian installer, and will be discarded
once │
│ you finish the installation.
│
│
│
│ Remote installation password:
│
│
│
│ _
│
│
│
│ [ ] Show Password in Clear
│
│
│
│ <Continue>
│
│
│
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
[ repeated]
┌────────────────┤ [!!] Continue installation remotely using SSH
├────────────────┐
│
│
│ Start SSH
│
│ To continue the installation, please use an SSH client to connect to the IP
│
│ address 192.168.1.xxx fe80::xxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx and log in as the
"installer" │
│ user. For example:
│
│
│
│ ssh instal...@192.168.1.nnn
│
│
│
│ The fingerprint of this SSH server's host key is:
│
│
│
│ SHA256:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ³
│
│
│
│ Please check this carefully against the fingerprint reported by your SSH
client.│
│
│
│ <Continue> ⁴
│
│
│
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
On another machine, in an xterm, step 3 is:
$ ssh -o GlobalKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null
instal...@192.168.1.nnn
┌────────────────────────────┤ [!!] Configuring d-i
├─────────────────────────────┐
│
│
│ This is the network console for the Debian installer. From here, you may
│
│ start the Debian installer, or execute an interactive shell.
│
│
│
│ To return to this menu, you will need to log in again.
│
│
│
│ Network console option:
│
│
│
│ Start installer
│
│ Start installer (expert mode)
│
│ Start shell
│
│
│
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Continue to install, copy/pasting whichever screens you want.
Note that with text, you can't record your responses selected
by highlighting rather than by *.
You can save time capturing the screens by executing script before
running ssh, and then replaying the script through col -b.
(Some tidying up may be required.)
¹ To capture the earliest screens, one can just execute steps that
have already been completed.
² Once you've opened a remote installer, that command is never seen
again.
³ Despite the advice given above, there are occasions when installing
a newer version from an older system that the client might display
an out-of-date fingerprint.
⁴ Don't press continue unless you're going to, say, abort. One could
get very confused with several main menu instances.
Cheers,
David.
