apt-get install questions

[Sam Vilain]

On Mon, 02 Jun 2003 15:07, Rene Cunningham wrote:
> FAI is working great, except for one major problem. When apt-getting
> stuff during the install process, packages that require user's answering
> certain questions (such as sendmail) are half installed. This requires
> the user to apt-get install sendmail, to reconfigure the package, which
> then goes and installs all the dependencies.
> Is there anyway around this, or have i configured FAI wrong?

Don't know if this is how it is normally done, but there is
information on the debconf(7) man page (perhaps only recent debconf
packages) about how to pre-feed DebConf questions so that packages may
be configured automatically at installation time.
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