preseeding

Before seeding.

Adjective

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

Noun

  1. 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...
    • 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...
    • This first command is run as early as possible, just after preseeding is read. - 2005: Frank Ronneburg, Debian GNU/Linux Anwenderhandbuch für Einsteiger, Umsteiger und Fortgeschrittene, page 124 (Pearson Education; ISBN...

Forms

preseedings

Verb

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