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How to Perform an Unattended Debian Installation

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Yoander Valdes Rodriguez
Feb 11, 2021

Debian has a simple and clean installation system which gets you up and running on Debian with little effort as long as the number of installations to be executed is minimal. But attended installs simply can’t scale when your machines number from the tens into the hundreds. 

In this post we’re going to do an unattended Debian installation adding the preseed file to the initrd.gz image.

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Yoander Valdes Rodriguez

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