Tom,

My example from my blog [0] is over a year old, but it demonstrates
the answers that were in use at the time. I probably need to publish a
new version. Beware that I'm pretty sure my preseed file installed the
old grub and not current grub so you probably don't want to just use
the whole thing. Old grub was the first one I got working with preseed
I think, and I forget why I was using old grub otherwise.

In the past I had had trouble with the Devuan installer ISO files, and
I normally used beta ones. Also specifically in my situation for
instantiating VMs in libvirt/qemu/kvm, I had to modify libvirt to
extract the correct filenames for our different-from-debian iso file
such as initrd.gz. That will be documented somewhere on my blog too
[1] but I doubt that will affect VMWare.

B. Stack

[0]: https://bgstack15.ddns.net/blog/posts/2021/05/23/use-virt-install-to-fully-automate-the-install-for-devuan-ceres-with-preseed-may-2021-edition/
[1]: https://bgstack15.ddns.net/blog/posts/2020/03/26/use-virt-install-to-fully-automate-the-install-for-devuan-ceres-with-preseed-march-2020-edition/

On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 4:46 AM wirelessduck--- via Dng
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> On 25 Oct 2022, at 00:55, Linux O'Beardly <linux.obeardly@???> wrote:
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> I don't have an opinion on this, but I do hope you keep us informed. I would like to know the results of your efforts.
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> Thanks, will do.
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> I’m still looking to find any devuan-specific preseed options eg. init system choice. Haven’t found anything searching through devuan Gitea.
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> I might try to run the linked script on https://preseed.debian.net/debian-preseed/ against the devuan mirror if nothing else comes up.
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> https://git.einval.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=steve-scripts.git;a=blob_plain;f=extract_template.pl;hb=HEAD
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> If the preseed fails, I will probably wait for the upcoming Devuan docker hub images before attempting cloud-init.
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> Tom
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