preseeding
noun1
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences a way to set answers to questions asked during the installation process, without having to manually enter the answers while the installation is running.
- 2004, Joey Hess, "d-i preseed file version 0.1", reprinted in Frank Ronneburg, 2005, Debian GNU/ Linux Anwenderhandbuch, Some parts of the installation process cannot be automated using some forms of preseeding, because the questions are asked before the preseed file is loaded.
- In addition to the preseed option, the boot command will then be longer than 100 characters, which defeats the purpose of preseeding -- a manual installation of Debian requires only twelve keystrokes before you are prompted for the root password.2005, Martin F. Krafft, The Debian System: Concepts and Techniques, →ISBN, page 426:
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- This first command is run as early as possible, just after preseeding is read.2005: Frank Ronneburg, Debian GNU/Linux Anwenderhandbuch für Einsteiger, Umsteiger und Fortgeschrittene, page 124 (Pearson Education; ISBN 978‒3‒8273‒2303‒3)
- I'm using preseeding over network(PXE).2008, "etch-n-half netboot problems", Unix Linux Forum, Aug 18