Automated installer / kickstart instructions?

[Erik Dykema <ed2019@columbia.edu>]

Hi-
	A while back there was a lot of talk about automating installations, 
and in many places it was claimed that it actually worked.  Does anyone 
have instructions for how to actually do it?
	For example, if I wanted to automate a network install, and I had done 
the homework, including:

	Install first by hand making sure things work.
	Making notes of all my choices and the answers to the questions that it 
asks me (alternately keystrokes?)

	How would I then translate this into an automated installation?

	I know of FAI and have been trying to use it, but it is extremely 
complicated and provides a lot of functionality that most users (even 
most administrators!) don't need.. I just want to use the regular 
debian-installer without having to sit here and press enter and type in 
my mirror location every time :)

thanks,
Erik