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Re: Towards a customizeable installer

From Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Towards a customizeable installer
Date 2020-06-01 17:50 +0200
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On 06/01/2020 09:32 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 06/01/2020 09:16 AM, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 01, 2020 at 07:01:21AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
>>> The standard Debian installer gives me only two poor choices:
>>>    too little customization    [i.e. Standard]
>>>    too much customization    [i.e. Expert]
>>> There are question always asked which will always have same answer
>>> [e.g. Full name].
>>>
>>> Back when Squeeze was the current release there was a website whose
>>> input screens resembled those of Expert mode and generated a custom
>>> preseed.cfg file .
>>>
>>> I suspect which search terms I used was cause for lack of relevant
>>> results. I.E. today I did
>>> [https://duckduckgo.com/html?q=%2B"debian"] .
>>> Of the first two dozen hits about half seemed promising. When
>>> reviewed, ~ six were worth additional investigation but none had
>>> what I was looking for.
>>
>> Perhaps it's
>>
>>    https://duckduckgo.com/html?q=%2B"debian"+%2B"preseed"
>>
>> or have I misunderstood you completely?
>>
>> Cheers
>> -- tomás
>>
> 
> https://duckduckgo.com/html?q=%2B"debian"+%2B"preseed" *IS* what I 
> intended. On my third try of copy-n-paste I thought I got it right ;/

OOPS --  should have finished my second cup of coffee

Search was

https://duckduckgo.com/html?q=%2B%22debian%22%20%2B%22custom%22%20%2B%22preseed.cfg%22

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Towards a customizeable installer Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-06-01 14:10 +0200
  Re: Towards a customizeable installer <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-06-01 16:20 +0200
    Re: Towards a customizeable installer Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-06-01 16:40 +0200
      Re: Towards a customizeable installer Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-06-01 17:50 +0200
  Re: Towards a customizeable installer Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-06-01 21:30 +0200
    Re: Towards a customizeable installer Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2020-06-02 00:00 +0200
      Re: Towards a customizeable installer Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-06-02 12:20 +0200
        Re: Towards a customizeable installer Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2020-06-02 16:50 +0200
  Re: Towards a customizeable installer Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2020-06-01 21:30 +0200

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