Public bug reported:

Under https://help.ubuntu.com/9.04/installation-guide/i386/appendix-
preseed.html is explained how one can automate the installation of
ubuntu.

But there are some misstakes/missing parts. This guide just works with
the alternate-cd and not with the desktop-cd but this is not mentioned
with one single word in the guide. The cause is that this guide has been
written for the debian-installer which is on the alternate-cd. The
desktop-cds use ubiquity which has it's own preseeding facility which
differs from the debian-installer. There are also way more limitations
with ubiquity, so some things can't be preseeded with it at all.

To fix this bug:
Explain in this guide that it's just working with the alternate-cd. 


Under https://help.ubuntu.com/9.04/installation-guide/i386/preseed-
creating.html is written one can get a list of all preseeding-options
with:

$ debconf-get-selections --installer > file
$ debconf-get-selections >> file

but those commands do also not work on a desktop-installation because
the database of these questions isn't created with an installation from
a desktop-cd.

To fix this bug:
Explain in this guide that those commands will just have success if installed 
from an alternate-cd.

** Affects: installation-guide (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: automated installation preseeding

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Appendix B about Automating the Installation has some misstakes
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/414801
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