4.6. Automatic Installation

For installing on multiple computers it's possible to do fully automatic installations. Debian packages intended for this include fai-quickstart, which can use an install server (have a look at the FAI home page for detailed information) and the Debian Installer itself. The FAI project also provides a web service for creating customized unattended installation ISO images with only a few clicks. You can choose the desktop environment, the language, the release, set the password and add your own list of additional packages. After a few minutes your can download and boot the image, that will do the fully automatic installation without any interaction needed. Some more advanced settings are available for Linux experts.

4.6.1. Automatic Installation Using the Debian Installer

The Debian Installer supports automating installs via preconfiguration files. A preconfiguration file can be loaded from the network or from removable media, and used to fill in answers to questions asked during the installation process.

Full documentation on preseeding including a working example that you can edit is in Tillegg B, Automating the installation using preseeding.