On Wednesday 4 August 1999, at 16 h 29, the keyboard of Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Um, it's quite annoying to be constantly interrupted to interact > various programs during the configuration phase of a Debian install. It's the Mother of All FAQs and has been discussed (but not solved) an incredible number of times. > If it's an absolute requirement for configuration scripts to be able > to ask questions, then perhaps there could be two categories, ones > which never ask questions and all the others. Run the non-interactive Many other suggestions have been made to solve the problem. It is not easy. You have to find: - a good scheme (think of X11-only installers, without a tty), - implement it (i.e. modify 3000 packages' {pre,post}{rm,inst}. Discussion on this problem takes place on the debian-admintool list. See its archives <http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/>.