Comments on How to install a Debian 8 (Jessie) Minimal Server

What about skipping systemd installation ?boot: ... preseed/late_command="in-target apt-get install -y sysvinit-core sysvinit sysvinit-utils" ...

As far as I know, Debian plans to switch completely to systemd in the long run. So I guess it might be better to make new installations with systemd so you dont have to convert from sysvinit to systemd later when they drop sysvinit support. For systems that get updated from Wheezy and therefor run sysvinit at the moment, I would stay with sysvinit for now.

i am sure you meant debian jessie network installation CD

To install a Debian 8 server system you will need the following:

the Debian Wheezy network installation CD, available here: 32Bit: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/8.0.0/i386/iso-cd/debian-8.0.0-i386-netinst.iso (i386) or 64Bit: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/8.0.0/amd64/iso-cd/debian-8.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso (x86_64 / amd64) a fast Internet connection.

 

shouldnt that be systemctl restart networking

and thanks for the article

What happens if I use two disks that are larger than 2Tb ? 

I just tried a netboot install and got the partition length of 5860530176 sectors exceeds the msdos-partition-table-imposed maximum of 4294967295then tried a terminal and can't use parted. 

Try using ext4

 Download links raise 404

The Links are updated now.

Debian link is down new Link

Here are the links https://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/

Would you happen to have noted how much disk space was being used at the end?I did almost exactly what you said to install an emulated Debian, but in the end my 5 GB disk was insufficient to install SSH server + standard system utilities. I find it a bit too much for a "minimal" server.

thanks so much!! Great job

 update download iso files http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/debian-live-8.2.0-amd64-standard.iso, regards

i want to insall it on a partition but it will not let me this is ......

just do auto install.

One of the most useful links I tried for my frist installation of Debian on VMWare, thank you.

Reeeeally good documentation, thank you very much!!!!