Problems creating preseed.cfg - syntax?

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>]

I'm having several problems getting desired results from preseeding.
My Environment:
  No internet/LAN
  Install media
     Debian GNU/Linux 7.1.0 "Wheezy" - Official i386 DVD 
Binary-1 20130615-21:54
  preseed.cfg on USB stick

Section "B.4. Contents of the preconfiguration file (for wheezy)" at
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apbs04.html.en states:
"
# Depending on what software you choose to install, or if things 
go wrong
# during the installation process, it's possible that other 
questions may
# be asked. You can preseed those too, of course. To get a list 
of every
# possible question that could be asked during an install, do an
# installation, and then run these commands:
#   debconf-get-selections --installer > file
#   debconf-get-selections >> file
"

I also found the same information in "B.3. Creating a 
preconfiguration file" 
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apbs03.html.en .


Unfortunately when I try bash responds "command not found".
The existing install was a manual install from DVD1 using default 
answers except for user/password/etc. Confirmed debconf installed 
by checking with synaptic.