preseeding
preseeding adjective: before seeding. Also the present participle and gerund of preseed.
Adjective
preseeding (not comparable)
- 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
preseeding (plural preseedings)
- a way to set answers to questions asked during the installation process, without having to manually enter the answers while the installation is running.
- 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.2004, Joey Hess, "d-i preseed file version 0.1", reprinted in Frank Ronneburg, 2005, Debian GNU/ Linux Anwenderhandbuch
- 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, Martin F. Krafft, The Debian System: Concepts and Techniques, →ISBN, page 426
Also used as
preseeding is also the present participle and gerund of preseed.
preseeding is also the misspelling of preceding.
Forms of preseeding
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Questions about preseeding
- What does preseeding mean?
- Preseeding means before seeding.
- What part of speech is preseeding?
- Preseeding can be an adjective or a noun.
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