Quoting Neale Banks (neale@lowendale.com.au): > Hi, > > I've been customising Debian installation with preseeding using a preseed > file on the Netinst CD, which is mostly working out OK. > > However, one point eludes me - getting a question to be "always" asked, > regardless of its priority. > > Specifically, the hostname is set via DHCP but we'd like the installing > person to override that - i.e. the hostname question should always be > asked. But, it doesn't get asked, presumably because the question's not > of "critical" priority. > > Setting "d-i netcfg/get_hostname seen false" hasn't helped (presumably > because of the priority issue). You need to change the netcfg package code for this. The priority of debconf questions is set when they are called from either a program or a package's maintainer script.
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