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author | Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> | 2020-06-19 20:36:23 +0200 |
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committer | Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> | 2020-06-19 20:36:23 +0200 |
commit | 570e0b80121558da901d40df18e3e9432c70816e (patch) | |
tree | 0aa835fa931a7ee6f75267ec4c0356dba378a6e6 | |
parent | 697db2e1ecae862dd7f1ac6f5926c652d0da4e2e (diff) | |
download | installation-guide-570e0b80121558da901d40df18e3e9432c70816e.zip |
Add a chapter to illustrate examples of boot prompt lines with preceeding options
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-rw-r--r-- | en/appendix/preseed.xml | 21 |
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diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index f5e0022fa..73ee3e56d 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ installation-guide (20200110) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium for arm64 before, but needs an overhaul first, to be useful). * Rephrase sentence about preparing USB storage devices (using GNU/Linux systems is recommended, but not strictly required). Closes: #837073 + * Add a chapter to illustrate examples of boot prompt lines with preceeding + options (an idea of Richard Owlett, thanks). [ Changwoo Ryu ] * Improve Korean pdf diff --git a/en/appendix/preseed.xml b/en/appendix/preseed.xml index d7570d6b3..b2d12ac15 100644 --- a/en/appendix/preseed.xml +++ b/en/appendix/preseed.xml @@ -570,6 +570,27 @@ always need to specify a value as well: for example, </sect2> + <sect2 id="preseed-bootparms-examples"> + <title>Examples of boot prompt preseeding</title> +<para> + +Here are some examples of how the boot prompt might look like +(you will need to adapt this to your needs; also see <xref linkend="boot-screen"/>). + +<informalexample><screen> +# To set French as language and France as country: +/install.amd/vmlinuz vga=788 initrd=/install.amd/gtk/initrd.gz language=fr country=FR --- quiet +# To set English as language and Germany as country, and use a German keyboard layout: +/install.amd/vmlinuz vga=788 initrd=/install.amd/gtk/initrd.gz language=en country=DE locale=en_US.UTF-8 keymap=de --- quiet +# To install the MATE desktop: +/install.amd/vmlinuz vga=788 initrd=/install.amd/gtk/initrd.gz desktop=mate-desktop --- quiet +# To install the web-server task: +/install.amd/vmlinuz initrd=/install.amd/initrd.gz tasksel:tasksel/first=web-server --- +</screen></informalexample> +</para> + + </sect2> + <sect2 id="preseed-dhcp"> <title>Using a DHCP server to specify preconfiguration files</title> <para> |