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Reseeding vs Preseeding - What's the difference?

reseeding | preseeding |

As verbs the difference between reseeding and preseeding

is that reseeding is present participle of lang=en while preseeding is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective preseeding is

before seeding.

As a noun preseeding is

a way to set answers to questions asked during the installation process, without having to manually enter the answers while the installation is running.

reseeding

English

Verb

(head)

    • Anagrams

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    preseeding

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Before seeding.
  • * 2002 , Brian H. Ross, Psychology of Learning and Motivation: Advances in Research and Theory , page 342
    • The effects of seeding are assessed by comparing preseeding (or unseeded) estimates to the postseeding estimates.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing) a way to set answers to questions asked during the installation process, without having to manually enter the answers while the installation is running.
  • * 2004 , Joey Hess, "d-i preseed file version 0.1", reprinted in Frank Ronneburg, 2005, Debian GNU/ Linux Anwenderhandbuch[http://books.google.com/books?id=V5wR73e-zzIC&pg=PA122&dq=preseeding&sig=C9OkkF5HCE2X4gxQ5qKJzTaLhNY#PPA117,M1] ,
    • Some parts of the installation process cannot be automated using some forms of preseeding , because the questions are asked before the preseed file is loaded.
  • * {{quote-book, 2005, Martin F. Krafft, The Debian System: Concepts and Techniques, isbn=1593270690 citation
    • , passage=In addition to the preseed option, the boot command will then be longer than 100 characters, which defeats the purpose of preseeding -- a manual installation of Debian requires only twelve keystrokes before you are prompted for the root password.}}
  • * 2005 : Frank Ronneburg, Debian GNU/Linux Anwenderhandbuch für Einsteiger, Umsteiger und Fortgeschrittene , page 124] ([http://www.informit.de/9783827323033.html?SID={BCA347AE-8125-4731-82EE-525F5A5AF3D4}&SID={EE40DE6B-91FB-4F2D-AD1A-007A165BE36D} Pearson Education; ISBN 978?3?8273?2303?3)
    • This first command is run as early as possible, just after preseeding is read.
  • * 2008 , "etch-n-half netboot problems", Unix Linux Forum , Aug 18
    • I'm using preseeding over network(PXE).

    References

    * Debian installation manual