• The fourth and final field contains the value for the expected answer. Note that it must be
separated from the third field with a single space; additional space characters are consid-
ered part of the value.
The simplest way to write a preseed file is to install a system by hand.
Then the
debconf-get-selections --installer
command will provide the answers you provided to the
installer. You can obtain answers directed to other packages with
debconf-get-selections
.
However, a cleaner solution is to write the preseed file by hand, starting from an example and
then going through the documentation. With this approach, only questions where the default
answer needs to be overridden can be preseeded. Provide the priority=critical boot parameter to
instruct Debconf to only ask critical questions, and to use the default answer for others.
