> 3) It asked me if I wanted to install grub, even though this was a fresh install
> 4) the network config part didn't seem Ubuntu-ified, took ages for DHCP to
> timeout, asked me about my domain name, etc.
It sounds as if you were at debconf priority high rather than critical. The
default critical priority is implemented in debian-cd rather than
debian-installer, so I see how you would end up at high when netbooting. I'll
fix that in my next debian-installer upload.
> 3) It asked me if I wanted to install grub, even though this was a fresh install
> 4) the network config part didn't seem Ubuntu-ified, took ages for DHCP to
> timeout, asked me about my domain name, etc.
It sounds as if you were at debconf priority high rather than critical. The
default critical priority is implemented in debian-cd rather than
debian-installer, so I see how you would end up at high when netbooting. I'll
fix that in my next debian-installer upload.