Installation Procedures for TLI Debian Systems

1. Boot standard netinst

2. Select Advanced options

3. Select Automated install

4. Enter Debian preconfiguration file location

Use debian.tli.cmu.edu; it will assume the default file path for the distribution.

5. Enter a temporary root password

The first state.apply by salt will override it, so just go wih something that can't be owned before you do the inital salt.

6. Confirm temporary root password

7. Enter a temporary deploy user password

The default username of deploy is provided by the preseed file. The first state.apply by salt will also override this, so just go wih something that can't be owned before you do the inital salt.

8. Confirm temporary deploy user password

9. Reboot

Assuming the preseed/late_command to install salt was successful, the salt minion will be running after the reboot and a key will be pending on the salt master. There's no actual need to login to the machine directly. See the Eberly documentation for saltstack to go from here.

Note: For inspection, the salt bootstrap script will be available under /home/deploy. To debug the salt installation or review the salt installation output, it's redirected to a .out file colocated with the bootstrap script.