In <4d46939a.6080...@coffeehabit.net>, Lists wrote: >pretty much what the subject says. I would like to feed answers to >debconf so that I can script installing packages on a new machine. > >I am unable to use preseed (which would solve this) because it's a >virtual server and I don't have access to the kernel.
How are you installing packages? If you can (sudo apt-get install stuff) sucessfully, it's likely you can configure pre-seeding. From what I understand, it doesn't actually involve booting with a custom kernel. Anyway, debconf has a number of frontends. The default is a curses front- end. You can also use a readline frontend that will read from stdin, so you can feed it answers via redirection. Finally, there's a noninteractive frontend that will basically take all the defaults. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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