On 7/9/2016 4:00 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:
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What I'd like to find which I've had no luck with so far, is finding a Debian
installer cmdline option to skip the waste of time that is installation of
any bootloader. My disks get generic MBR code and Grub installed by me before
any OS gets installed. Thus, I have no need to see warnings about blocklists
and unreliability from installers trying to do what I don't want or need done
If you do the installation in expert mode, you can skip the step to install a
boot loader. But that's in interactive mode. I've never done an automated
installation, so I don't know what can and cannot be done in that environment.
Preseed.cfg apparently can do everything except "walk the dog".
[Well really customized partitioning is annoying. But that is
documented.]
I tend to do multiple installs as I am experimenting with having
Debian to do things in *MY* idiosyncratic way. I started with
using EXPERT mode but found repetitive typing annoying. An
appropriately edited preseed.cfg allows me to automate all
options except the particular feature(s) of interest.
My only problem is finding a *SINGLE* references which lists
*ALL* the choices which can be preseeded.
I find Debian documentation to frequently resemble the early
_CPM-80 Manual_. It's all there but finding it can me daunting.
