Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Geert Stappers] > > The manual writes about bootparameter debconf/frontend= > > but that didn't make sense with cdebconf_udeb 0.70 > > > > Adding DEBIAN_FRONTEND= did do what I wanted. > > I prefer DEBIAN_FRONTEND because it is the same as the parameter used > on the shell command line, and the traditional variable used and > documented all over the place.
I prefer debconf/frontend because it's easier to type and because I often try to type DEBCONF_FRONTEND. Also for consistency with most of the other installer options. :-) Anyway, IIRC the reason debconf/frontend does not work is because of the following in rootskel/src/lib/debian-installer.d/S60frontend: if [ -z "$DEBIAN_FRONTEND" ] ; then for frontend in gtk newt slang text ; do if [ -e "/usr/lib/cdebconf/frontend/$frontend.so" ] ; then DEBIAN_FRONTEND=$frontend break fi done fi export DEBIAN_FRONTEND -- see shy jo
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