Re: Preseed Bug or User Error?

From	john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Preseed Bug or User Error?
Date	2021-03-04 09:00 +0100
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On 3/3/2021 11:53 PM, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Mar 2021 18:47:16 +0000
> Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>> Major improvement, thank you! I did have to answer some questions on
>>> the way through, but did get a good connection.
>>
>> Good. As I tried to indicate, the priority at which d-i is run affects
>> which questions are asked. Otherwise you get the default; what you
>> call the "correct selection" later on. My preseed file starts with
>>
>>    debconf debconf/priority string critical
>
> That helped, thank you.
>
> Something is preventing d-i from stopping before rebooting. I would
> like to avoid that. There may be occasions when I want to examine the
> results before I reboot. (I do know about /var/log/install.)
>

Near the EOF at (1):

"### Finishing up the installation
# During installations from serial console, the regular virtual consoles
# (VT1-VT6) are normally disabled in /etc/inittab. Uncomment the next
# line to prevent this.
#d-i finish-install/keep-consoles boolean true

# Avoid that last message about the install being complete.
d-i finish-install/reboot_in_progress note"

1)  https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/example-preseed.txt

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John Doe

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Preseed Bug or User Error? Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2021-03-02 00:30 +0100
  Re: Preseed Bug or User Error? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-03-02 11:30 +0100
    Re: Preseed Bug or User Error? Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2021-03-02 19:20 +0100
      Re: Preseed Bug or User Error? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-03-02 19:50 +0100
        Re: Preseed Bug or User Error? Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2021-03-04 00:20 +0100
          Re: Preseed Bug or User Error? john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2021-03-04 09:00 +0100

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