Press Enter at the boot prompt to start the text mode Debian-Installer, or launch the graphical Debian-Installer by typing. Xorg.conf so as to force the X server. If you are installing a different architecture, some of the examples (like keyboard selection and bootloader installation) may not be relevant and will need to be replaced by debconf settings. Auto mode (Section B.2.3, “Auto mode”) includes the setting of auto-install/enable=true (normally via the auto preseed alias).

Problem: I can't see anything at the hi-res of modern monitors, as my eyes degrade. I need to console lower res to good-old DOS-style, 80x25. I installed brand-new Debian 8 (netinst), no X11, no display manager for now. (Intel 4400 graphics chip) I tried: edit in file /etc/default/grub: GRUB_TERMINAL=console GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=text # update-grub2 But it only affects first part of the boot.

Right before user login appears, Debian resets to hi-res. How to force it into text mode? Thanks in advance, -Technologov. The newest kernels have moved the video mode setting into the kernel. So all the programming of the hardware specific clock rates and registers on the video card happen in the kernel rather than in the X driver when the X server starts.

This makes it possible to have high resolution nice looking splash (boot) screens and flicker free transitions from boot splash to login screen. Unfortunately, on some cards this doesnt work properly and you end up with a black screen. Adding the nomodeset parameter instructs the kernel to not load video drivers and use BIOS modes instead until X is loaded. So KMS, if it's working, is setting the text mode to a high resolution (tiny fonts) early in the boot process.

I suspect there's some magic command to enlarge the console fonts even in high resolution, too. Maybe someone knows it offhand? Okay, it seems few things combined helped: 1. GRUB: (in /etc/grub.d/10_linux.) gfxmode $linux_gfx_mode needs to be removed. GRUB kernel: (in /etc/default/grub) nomodeset 3. GRUB itself: (in /etc/default/grub) GRUB_TERMINAL=console GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480 Only those modes together helps! For me this DOS-style is okay, no need to enlarge anything, as this is a 13' laptop.

(back in the 90's I worked on a 14' CRT desktop monitor, so it's fairly close experience, except for wide-screen aspect-ratio 16:9, back then it was 4:3) Now I can definitely work on laptop, without killing my eyes! Thanks again! Posts: 33 Joined: 2011-05-03 03:11.

B.4. Contents of the preconfiguration file (for stretch) The configuration fragments used in this appendix are also available as an example preconfiguration file from. Note that this example is based on an installation for the Intel x86 architecture. If you are installing a different architecture, some of the examples (like keyboard selection and bootloader installation) may not be relevant and will need to be replaced by debconf settings appropriate for your architecture.

Details on how the different Debian Installer components actually work can be found in. B.4.1. Localization During a normal install the questions about localization are asked first, so these values can only be preseeded via the initrd or kernel boot parameter methods. Auto mode () includes the setting of auto-install/enable=true (normally via the auto preseed alias). This delays the asking of the localisation questions, so that they can be preseeded by any method. The locale can be used to specify both language and country and can be any combination of a language supported by debian-installer and a recognized country.

If the combination does not form a valid locale, the installer will automatically select a locale that is valid for the selected language. To specify the locale as a boot parameter, use locale= en_US. Although this method is very easy to use, it does not allow preseeding of all possible combinations of language, country and locale. So alternatively the values can be preseeded individually. Language and country can also be specified as boot parameters. # Preseeding only locale sets language, country and locale.

D-i debian-installer/locale string en_US # The values can also be preseeded individually for greater flexibility. #d-i debian-installer/language string en #d-i debian-installer/country string NL #d-i debian-installer/locale string en_GB.UTF-8 # Optionally specify additional locales to be generated. #d-i localechooser/supported-locales multiselect en_US.UTF-8, nl_NL.UTF-8 Keyboard configuration consists of selecting a keymap and (for non-latin keymaps) a toggle key to switch between the non-latin keymap and the US keymap. Only basic keymap variants are available during installation.

Advanced variants are available only in the installed system, through dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration. B.4.2. Network configuration Of course, preseeding the network configuration won't work if you're loading your preconfiguration file from the network. But it's great when you're booting from CD or USB stick. If you are loading preconfiguration files from the network, you can pass network config parameters by using kernel boot parameters.

If you need to pick a particular interface when netbooting before loading a preconfiguration file from the network, use a boot parameter such as interface= eth1. Although preseeding the network configuration is normally not possible when using network preseeding (using “ preseed/url”), you can use the following hack to work around that, for example if you'd like to set a static address for the network interface. The hack is to force the network configuration to run again after the preconfiguration file has been loaded by creating a “ preseed/run” script containing the following commands. # Disable network configuration entirely. This is useful for cdrom # installations on non-networked devices where the network questions, # warning and long timeouts are a nuisance. #d-i netcfg/enable boolean false # netcfg will choose an interface that has link if possible. This makes it # skip displaying a list if there is more than one interface.

D-i netcfg/choose_interface select auto # To pick a particular interface instead: #d-i netcfg/choose_interface select eth1 # To set a different link detection timeout (default is 3 seconds). # Values are interpreted as seconds. #d-i netcfg/link_wait_timeout string 10 # If you have a slow dhcp server and the installer times out waiting for # it, this might be useful. #d-i netcfg/dhcp_timeout string 60 #d-i netcfg/dhcpv6_timeout string 60 # If you prefer to configure the network manually, uncomment this line and # the static network configuration below.

#d-i netcfg/disable_autoconfig boolean true # If you want the preconfiguration file to work on systems both with and # without a dhcp server, uncomment these lines and the static network # configuration below. #d-i netcfg/dhcp_failed note #d-i netcfg/dhcp_options select Configure network manually # Static network configuration. # # IPv4 example #d-i netcfg/get_ipaddress string 192.168.1.42 #d-i netcfg/get_netmask string 255.255.255.0 #d-i netcfg/get_gateway string 192.168.1.1 #d-i netcfg/get_nameservers string 192.168.1.1 #d-i netcfg/confirm_static boolean true # # IPv6 example #d-i netcfg/get_ipaddress string fc00::2 #d-i netcfg/get_netmask string ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:: #d-i netcfg/get_gateway string fc00::1 #d-i netcfg/get_nameservers string fc00::1 #d-i netcfg/confirm_static boolean true # Any hostname and domain names assigned from dhcp take precedence over # values set here. However, setting the values still prevents the questions # from being shown, even if values come from dhcp. D-i netcfg/get_hostname string unassigned-hostname d-i netcfg/get_domain string unassigned-domain # If you want to force a hostname, regardless of what either the DHCP # server returns or what the reverse DNS entry for the IP is, uncomment # and adjust the following line. #d-i netcfg/hostname string somehost # Disable that annoying WEP key dialog. D-i netcfg/wireless_wep string # The wacky dhcp hostname that some ISPs use as a password of sorts.

#d-i netcfg/dhcp_hostname string radish # If non-free firmware is needed for the network or other hardware, you can # configure the installer to always try to load it, without prompting. Or # change to false to disable asking. #d-i hw-detect/load_firmware boolean true Please note that netcfg will automatically determine the netmask if netcfg/get_netmask is not preseeded. In this case, the variable has to be marked as seen for automatic installations. Similarly, netcfg will choose an appropriate address if netcfg/get_gateway is not set. As a special case, you can set netcfg/get_gateway to “ none” to specify that no gateway should be used. B.4.4. Mirror settings Depending on the installation method you use, a mirror may be used to download additional components of the installer, to install the base system, and to set up the /etc/apt/sources.list for the installed system.

The parameter mirror/suite determines the suite for the installed system. The parameter mirror/udeb/suite determines the suite for additional components for the installer. It is only useful to set this if components are actually downloaded over the network and should match the suite that was used to build the initrd for the installation method used for the installation.

Normally the installer will automatically use the correct value and there should be no need to set this. # Skip creation of a root account (normal user account will be able to # use sudo). #d-i passwd/root-login boolean false # Alternatively, to skip creation of a normal user account. #d-i passwd/make-user boolean false # Root password, either in clear text #d-i passwd/root-password password r00tme #d-i passwd/root-password-again password r00tme # or encrypted using a crypt(3) hash.

#d-i passwd/root-password-crypted password [crypt(3) hash] # To create a normal user account. #d-i passwd/user-fullname string Debian User #d-i passwd/username string debian # Normal user's password, either in clear text #d-i passwd/user-password password insecure #d-i passwd/user-password-again password insecure # or encrypted using a crypt(3) hash. #d-i passwd/user-password-crypted password [crypt(3) hash] # Create the first user with the specified UID instead of the default. #d-i passwd/user-uid string 1010 # The user account will be added to some standard initial groups. To # override that, use this. #d-i passwd/user-default-groups string audio cdrom video The passwd/root-password-crypted and passwd/user-password-crypted variables can also be preseeded with “!” as their value. In that case, the corresponding account is disabled.

This may be convenient for the root account, provided of course that an alternative method is set up to allow administrative activities or root login (for instance by using SSH key authentication or sudo). The following command (available from the whois package) can be used to generate a SHA-512 based crypt(3) hash for a password. B.4.7. Partitioning Using preseeding to partition the harddisk is limited to what is supported by partman-auto. You can choose to partition either existing free space on a disk or a whole disk. The layout of the disk can be determined by using a predefined recipe, a custom recipe from a recipe file or a recipe included in the preconfiguration file. Preseeding of advanced partition setups using RAID, LVM and encryption is supported, but not with the full flexibility possible when partitioning during a non-preseeded install. The examples below only provide basic information on the use of recipes.

For detailed information see the files partman-auto-recipe.txt and partman-auto-raid-recipe.txt included in the debian-installer package. Both files are also available from the.

Note that the supported functionality may change between releases. B.4.7.3. Controlling how partitions are mounted Normally, filesystems are mounted using a universally unique identifier (UUID) as a key; this allows them to be mounted properly even if their device name changes. UUIDs are long and difficult to read, so, if you prefer, the installer can mount filesystems based on the traditional device names, or based on a label you assign. If you ask the installer to mount by label, any filesystems without a label will be mounted using a UUID instead. Devices with stable names, such as LVM logical volumes, will continue to use their traditional names rather than UUIDs. # You can choose to install non-free and contrib software. #d-i apt-setup/non-free boolean true #d-i apt-setup/contrib boolean true # Uncomment this if you don't want to use a network mirror.

#d-i apt-setup/use_mirror boolean false # Select which update services to use; define the mirrors to be used. # Values shown below are the normal defaults. • standard (standard tools) • desktop (graphical desktop) • gnome-desktop (Gnome desktop) • xfce-desktop (XFCE desktop) • kde-desktop (KDE Plasma desktop) • cinnamon-desktop (Cinnamon desktop) • mate-desktop (MATE desktop) • lxde-desktop (LXDE desktop) • web-server (web server) • print-server (print server) • ssh-server (SSH server) You can also choose to install no tasks, and force the installation of a set of packages in some other way.

We recommend always including the standard task. If you want to install some individual packages in addition to packages installed by tasks, you can use the parameter pkgsel/include. The value of this parameter can be a list of packages separated by either commas or spaces, which allows it to be used easily on the kernel command line as well. #tasksel tasksel/first multiselect standard, web-server, kde-desktop # Individual additional packages to install #d-i pkgsel/include string openssh-server build-essential # Whether to upgrade packages after debootstrap. # Allowed values: none, safe-upgrade, full-upgrade #d-i pkgsel/upgrade select none # Some versions of the installer can report back on what software you have # installed, and what software you use. Egr Remover Keygen Generator more. The default is not to report back, # but sending reports helps the project determine what software is most # popular and include it on CDs.

#popularity-contest popularity-contest/participate boolean false. # Grub is the default boot loader (for x86). If you want lilo installed # instead, uncomment this: #d-i grub-installer/skip boolean true # To also skip installing lilo, and install no bootloader, uncomment this # too: #d-i lilo-installer/skip boolean true # This is fairly safe to set, it makes grub install automatically to the MBR # if no other operating system is detected on the machine. D-i grub-installer/only_debian boolean true # This one makes grub-installer install to the MBR if it also finds some other # OS, which is less safe as it might not be able to boot that other OS. # 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 # This will prevent the installer from ejecting the CD during the reboot, # which is useful in some situations. Fahren Lernen Max Keygen Music. #d-i cdrom-detect/eject boolean false # This is how to make the installer shutdown when finished, but not # reboot into the installed system.

#d-i debian-installer/exit/halt boolean true # This will power off the machine instead of just halting it. #d-i debian-installer/exit/poweroff boolean true.