d-i-preseed

Preseeds for the Debian installer (d-i).

Upstream documentation:

• Debian Wiki
• Installer Guide
• Sample Preseed File

Documentation

• Documentation for the preseed parameters is available in the form of the PACKAGE_NAME/debian/PACKAGE_NAME.templates files in the d-i source repository here
  • Remember to checkout the "sub repos" with mr (myrepos tool)
  • If using a "smart" search tool (IDE, ripgrep), remember that the "sub repos" are gitignored in the main repo, so configure your search tool to ignore the ignore files: rg --no-ignore partman-auto/cap-ram

Updating preseed files for new releases

As the documentation and the sample preseed files are part of the install guide whose source (Docbook XML) is in git (to be specific, in en/appendix/preseed.xml in the repo), one can (hopefully) find (at least the important) changes with git diff:

git diff origin/bullseye..origin/bookworm en/appendix/preseed.xml