Preseeding Debian (again)

[klussier at comcast.net]

Hi all,

I am back to building a customized debian-based distribution. I'm using the Etch version of the installer, so everything I did before with the Sarge installer is pretty much useless....

I keep running into trouble with d-i, though. Well, more specifically, the preseed system is what I am having trouble with. In my preseed file I have the line:

d-i     tasksel/first   multiselect ""

That is supposed to force the selection of no tasks during the install. However, it ignores that line and tries to do the default and install the "Desktop" and "Standard System" tasks.  Has anyone else used a preseed file with Etch and successfully not installed any tasks? It worked on Sarge.....

TIA,
Kenny