A workbench template for creating Debian Preseeds.

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1. Open any file manager of your choice.

2. Navigate to the home directory of your current user.

3. Right-click in the directory area and select "Run terminal here" (or similar).

4. Update the system with the following commands:

   apt -y update
   apt -y upgrade

5. Download the Git repository with the following commands:

   apt -y install git
   git clone https://github.com/michel-abele/debian-preseed-workbench.git ~/preseed

   You may need root privileges to execute the commands, use the commands su or sudo.

6. If you need files to be copied into the ISO file, copy them into the directory: ~/preseed/files. All files in this folder will automatically be copied to the ISO file and will be located under : /cdrom/files, available during installation.

7. Download the latest ISO file from the Debian website and save it as debian.iso, in the directory ~/preseed.

   • Complete ISO file:

     apt -y install wget
     wget -O ./debian.iso https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-dvd/debian-12.5.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso

     You may need root privileges to execute the commands, use the commands su or sudo.

     or

   • minimal ISO file (Net-install):

     apt -y install wget
     wget -O ./debian.iso https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/debian-12.5.0-amd64-netinst.iso

     You may need root privileges to execute the commands, use the commands su or sudo.

8. Now you can customize the file preseed.cfg according to your needs.

9. If you have completed all the previous steps, you can now make the file preseed.sh executable and run it.

   chmod +x ./preseed.sh
   ./preseed.sh

   You may need root privileges to execute the commands, use the commands su or sudo.

10. If you do not need the ISO file for a VM, you still need to create a bootable installation medium.

    dd if=./preseed-debian.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M status=progress && sync

    You must replace the drive directory sdX with the corresponding device directory. You may need root privileges to execute the commands, use the commands su or sudo.