Markdown All in One by Yu Zhang
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LAB 1

Open "Settings" on your host Windows computer
Turn Windows Features on or off. Reboot may be required.
My features are as shown below:
Now run your Hyper-V manager. Use Find menu if this icon is not on Desktop/Task bar.
Create new Virtual Machine:
Specify Name and Location:
Generation 1 is required (second generation is used for windows guests to allow so called Enchanced sessions (See View menu) with copy/paste, drag'n'drop between the host and the guest machines):
Use powers of 2 to assign necessary memory amount: 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, etc. memory should be small enough, let's say <= HostRAM/2)
By default Default switch virtualize NAT networking on your Guest.
Virtual HD should be smaller than available space on Host, and big enough to allow successful install of the system of your choice)
Use just created unattended ISO to make fully automated install:
Check that everything looks fine and press Enter
Change settins for the virtual machine just created:
1. Disable checkpoints (allows you to copy VM HD image between different hosts)
2. Disable dynamic memory (allows you to run more than one virtual machine at the same time)
3. Optionally increase processors cores (stay below physically available amount of cores on host)
Start the guest OS installation process (takes time, ~5 min, user/password settings are visible in myiso115 script)
Surprise! myiso script for versions 11.3 and below is not 'Unattended' anymore. We need to fix this script and repeat the whole procedure:
1. Read this:
  
  https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/532252/how-to-automate-selection-of-type-of-installation-by-editing-isolinux
2. Fix myiso script as follows: …
```
1.  xorriso ...
2.  sed -i 's/vesamenu.c32/install/' isofiles/
          isolinux/isolinux.cfg
3.  curl -#L ...
```
Now it’s time to convert this Microsoft DOCX file into MD (markdown). This is needed to satisfy the license requirements in classrooms and some third places.
Use Calibre latest to convert from DOCX to TXTZ
To see the result open 'containing folder' with txtz archive.
Open this archive using 7z extractor (Create necessary association between TXTZ extension and C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7zFM.exe)
Rename index.txt to MD file
Now it’s time to finish our p.16. Let's do this using our WSL console.

Additional notes to “Surprise”

Latest Notepad++ doesn't even let you edit RO files, not just requires to save them under different name/location (which seemed logical)

Annex 1. Offlined article

How to automate selection of type of installation by editing Isolinux?**

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/532252/how-to-automate-selection-of-type-of-installation-by-editing-isolinux

I'm trying to fully automate the process of Debian 9 installation, by using a preseed config file. The OS will be installed inside a VM on a remote headless server.

The only step which still requires user interaction is the main menu of the installer when I have to select the type of installation. See picture: ![enter image description here] (./images/RAB22.jpeg)

So how do I automatically select one of the options here? Specifically I want to select Advanced options, and then Automated install. I think by editing the isolinux files, I should get there, but I don't quite understand these files. According to this article I modified the following isolinux files like this:

gtk.cfg

label installgui
menu label ^Graphical install
kernel /install.amd/vmlinuz
append vga=788 initrd=/install.amd/gtk/initrd.gz --- quiet 
adtxt.cfg
default auto
label expert
menu label E^xpert install
kernel /install.amd/vmlinuz
append priority=low vga=788 initrd=/install.amd/initrd.gz --- 
include rqtxt.cfg
label auto
menu label ^Automated install
menu default
kernel /install.amd/vmlinuz
append auto=true priority=critical vga=788 
       initrd=/install.amd/initrd.gz --- quiet

But nothing changed. The cursor was still on the Graphical install, and I cannot afford user interaction. Can someone point me to the right direction?

asked Jul 26, 2019 at 8:57

Answer

The autoselect keyword did not work for me, but I'm using Debian 10 so meh. I just changed the line in isolinux.cfg:

default vesamenu.c32

default install

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