Dear Maintainer,

The docs for preseeding debian recommend pressing ESC after entering
the graphical installer menu:

I am using the amd64 DVD-1 ISO image: debian-12.0.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso

When executing a shell, there is no "auto" command as documented
<https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed>:

The "auto" command launches the installation in the automated mode, where

Ernesto Alfonso <erjoalgo@gmail.com> wrote:

I found that you refer to the Debian Wiki at
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed
when you talk about "docs for preseeding debian" above.

Please note, that the Wiki is not the "official" documentation for our installer.
That would be the installation-guide, see
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual
A chapter about preseeding installation is at
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/apb.en.html

That being said, I see that the information on the Wiki page you mentioned
is outdated and thus no longer working.
I have updated it now in that regard.




Moreover, I notice that we probably have some deficit in the installation-guide,
when it comes to information about how to append boot parameters to the installer
(at least for some architectures).

For amd64 and ii386 that is mentioned in chapter "5.1.5. The Boot Screen"
see https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch05s01.en.html#boot-screen

and s390x has it in "5.1.2. S/390 Boot Parameters"
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/s390x/ch05s01.en.html

But for all other archs I cannot find any such information.

Would it make sense to add that?
(OTOH, nobody has complained about that for years, so maybe it's not necessary?)


Holger

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