English

Adjective

preseeding ‎(not comparable)

1. 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

preseeding

1. present participle of preseed
2. Misspelling of preceding.

Noun

preseeding ‎(plural preseedings)

1. (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,

     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.

   • 2005, Martin F. Krafft, The Debian System: Concepts and Techniques, ISBN 1593270690, page 426:

     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 (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