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

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