On Sun 14 Nov 2021 at 18:48:54 +0100, john doe wrote: > On 11/14/2021 6:34 PM, Brian wrote: > > On Sun 14 Nov 2021 at 10:54:38 -0600, David Wright wrote: > > > > > On Sun 14 Nov 2021 at 08:14:49 (+0000), André Rodier wrote: > > > > On 14/11/2021 07:39, john doe wrote: > > > > > On 11/13/2021 5:39 PM, André Rodier wrote: > > > > No, it does not work, it's still stuck on the same screen. > > > > > > > > The solution that worked for me was to add it as a boot parameter. > > > > > > For the record, there is also this note in the Installation Guide: > > > > > > In order to easily avoid the questions that would normally appear > > > before the preseeding occurs, you can start the installer in “auto” > > > mode. This delays questions that would normally be asked too early > > > for preseeding (i.e. language, country and keyboard selection) until > > > after the network comes up, thus allowing them to be preseeded. It > > > also runs the installation at critical priority, which avoids many > > > unimportant questions. See Section B.2.3 for details. > > > > A good FTR. However, when I tried this a few years ago it didn't work > > for me. Maybe I lacked patience to sort it out properly. That is why > > I went to boot parameters for language and keyboard. > > > > The OP does not say how the preseed file is provided to the installer. > > My recollection (not checked) is that putting it in the initrd is the > > only way of ensuring language and keyboard preseeding from the start > > of the installation. > > > > Using PXE booting, I don't have to preseed any of those steps manually > if 'auto=true' is passed as kernel boot parameter.
I did own up to not checking the documentation so completely accept this. The OP hasn't even told us what he is using. -- Brian.
