Preseeding is a very useful way of installing and pre-configuring a Debian system in one go. You simply supply lots of the settings that your new system will need up front, in a preseed file. The installer will use those settings instead of asking questions, and it will also pass on any extra settings via the debconf database so that any further package setup will use them. There is documentation about how to do this in the Debian wiki at https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed, and a...
