Re: full automated installation preseed without any network connection?

2012-10-20 Thread Richard Owlett
anots...@fastmail.fm wrote: Dear list, can Debian be fully automated installed when there is no network connection available? Did you actually test it? If so, can share your preseed.cfg please? Did you solve your problem(s)? I wish to do something similar, but more perhaps more restrictive

Re: No swap for Debian preseed automated installation

2012-08-25 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Christofer C. Bell wrote: > > That depends upon the Linux kernel setting of vm.overcommit_memory. I > have ranted about this on a number of occasions. But the Linux kernel > default is to overcommit. In which case swap is not used in the > tr

Re: No swap for Debian preseed automated installation

2012-08-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Christofer C. Bell wrote: > I'd ask you to keep in mind that even "unused swap" (meaning, you do > not expect the system to need to swap) is still useful and valuable. Agreed. > Sometimes processes ask for more memory than is available in the > system. The kernel will not allow the process to ru

Re: No swap for Debian preseed automated installation

2012-08-25 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 7:55 AM, ML mail wrote: > That's good news, I didn't see that option in the Debian sample preseed > config files. So as you recommended I checked the partman-basicfilesystems > package from Ubuntu and found the template which does that. Now added the > following to my de

Re: No swap for Debian preseed automated installation

2012-08-24 Thread ML mail
ms/no_swap boolean false and am going to test it right now :) - Original Message - From: Brian To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 2:41 PM Subject: Re: No swap for Debian preseed automated installation On Fri 24 Aug 2012 at 05:22:01 -0700, ML mail wrot

Re: No swap for Debian preseed automated installation

2012-08-24 Thread Brian
onfiguration file the automated Debian > installation stops and opens a dialog for configuring swap space. > > I deduct here that it is not possible to have a fully automated > installation without a swap space. Am I right? Or are there any tricks > to overcome this necessity of swap

No swap for Debian preseed automated installation

2012-08-24 Thread ML mail
opens a dialog for configuring swap space. I deduct here that it is not possible to have a fully automated installation without a swap space. Am I right? Or are there any tricks to overcome this necessity of swap space? Cheers, ML -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: full automated installation preseed without any network connection?

2012-07-11 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 16:29:54 -0700, anotst01 wrote: > can Debian be fully automated installed when there is no network > connection available? Yes, but depending on the installation media (netiso, CD or DVD) the amount of packages you can install will vary. > Did you actually test it? If so, ca

Re: full automated installation preseed without any network connection?

2012-07-11 Thread rjc
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 07:11:13AM BST, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 10 iul 12, 16:29:54, anots...@fastmail.fm wrote: > > Dear list, > > > > can Debian be fully automated installed when there is no network > > connection available? > > Could you please give more details about what you want to a

Re: full automated installation preseed without any network connection?

2012-07-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 10 iul 12, 16:29:54, anots...@fastmail.fm wrote: > Dear list, > > can Debian be fully automated installed when there is no network > connection available? Could you please give more details about what you want to achieve? I'd install on a removable drive, boot the new system with it and c

Re: full automated installation preseed without any network connection?

2012-07-10 Thread anotst01
I want to install without network and automation. Is it possible? Can you share a working preseed.cfg please? -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The professional email service -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas.

Re: full automated installation preseed without any network connection?

2012-07-10 Thread Istimsak
Debian can be installed with internet access. Never configured automation. That is something to experiment with. anots...@fastmail.fm wrote: >Dear list, > >can Debian be fully automated installed when there is no network >connection available? > >Did you actually test it? If so, can share your p

full automated installation preseed without any network connection?

2012-07-10 Thread anotst01
Dear list, can Debian be fully automated installed when there is no network connection available? Did you actually test it? If so, can share your preseed.cfg please? -- http://www.fastmail.fm - IMAP accessible web-mail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Automated Installation - Copy files from CD?

2010-05-05 Thread John Hasler
Tim writes: > I need to modify a product based on Debian. What product? > Since this product does not contain the proper driver for some of my > hardware, What driver? What hardware? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: Automated Installation - Copy files from CD?

2010-05-05 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Tim Nelson wrote: > Greetings all- > > I need to modify a product based on Debian. It installs from a CD and uses > the Debian installer system. Since this product does not contain the proper > driver for some of my hardware, I need a way to have the installer cop

Automated Installation - Copy files from CD?

2010-05-04 Thread Tim Nelson
Greetings all- I need to modify a product based on Debian. It installs from a CD and uses the Debian installer system. Since this product does not contain the proper driver for some of my hardware, I need a way to have the installer copy some files from the CD (which I'll add to the master ISO)

automated installation

2004-03-31 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! I would like to install "my" Sarge installation automatically. Sarge's sources.list has 6 loopmounted uptodate CD's Looking at fai it appears that this does not emphasize the package installation process and wants nfs and a debian mirror. So I am looking at expect. First question I

Automated installation, system verification

1999-04-05 Thread Rene Mayrhofer
Please excuse the wrong email-address in the last email (Kmail trashed my settings). The correct address is mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rene

Automated installation, system verification

1999-04-05 Thread Rene Mayrhofer
Hi At the moment I got the task to build a firewall using Linux. As I am using Debian for my desktop system for over an year, I want to use it for the firewall-basic-system, too. But I have 2 problems: 1. I need an automated installation of the system. It is important that the installation of