Serial console install - Best practice?

[Alex Owen <owen@cus.org.uk>]

Hi,

Is the best practice for serial conosle installs with d-i to use
"DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text" ?

Is the answer to this question arch dependent?

Is this/should this be auto-detected?

If "DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text" is the best way to do serial installs I'll
prepare an svn patch to include this argument to the pxelinux serial
netboot "default" file (i386).

Currently the stanzas in
netboot/debian-installer/i386/pxelinux.cfg.serial-9600/default look like

label linux
	kernel debian-installer/i386/linux
	append vga=normal initrd=debian-installer/i386/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=9372 root=/dev/rd/0 devfs=mount,dall rw console=ttyS0,9600n8  --

I don't understand the "--" at the end of the append line. Please can
someone enlighten me? I can't find a reference to this in the pxelinux
docs or the bootprompt-howto... I think I need to understand this to
prepare a working patch...

Thanks in advance

Alex Owen