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Change preseed file AFTER booting on LiveCD?

Asked by Markus Waas

Hello, I am curious, if it is possible to change preseed files in the LiveCD environment?
So that you can boot into the LiveCD, configure the preseed files and then start ubiquity --automatic.

The reason I try this is, that I want to make a custom installer, where you have some limitations for your install configuration. So I could just edit those preseed files and then run ubiquity.

Would that be possible?

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Best Colin Watson (cjwatson) said : 		#1

The preseed files are processed during boot, so you can't usefully edit
them after boot. However, you can achieve much the same effect by
passing data to the debconf-set-selections program within the live
environment.

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Markus Waas (mail-gorgos) said : 		#2

Thanks Colin Watson, that solved my question.