### Localization # Preseeding only locale sets language, country and locale. d-i debian-installer/locale string en_GB.UTF-8 # Keyboard selection. # Disable automatic (interactive) keymap detection. d-i console-setup/ask_detect boolean false d-i keyboard-configuration/layoutcode string gb ### Network configuration # netcfg will choose an interface that has link if possible. This makes it # skip displaying a list if there is more than one interface. d-i netcfg/choose_interface select auto # Just in case our DHCP server is busy. d-i netcfg/dhcp_timeout string 60 # Any hostname and domain names assigned from dhcp take precedence over # values set here. However, setting the values still prevents the questions # from being shown, even if values come from dhcp. d-i netcfg/get_hostname string unassigned-hostname d-i netcfg/get_domain string unassigned-domain # Disable that annoying WEP key dialog. d-i netcfg/wireless_wep string # Added by @analytically: always install the server kernel d-i base-installer/kernel/override-image string linux-server ### Mirror settings # Alternatively: by default, the installer uses CC.archive.ubuntu.com where # CC is the ISO-3166-2 code for the selected country. You can preseed this # so that it does so without asking. d-i mirror/http/mirror select gb.archive.ubuntu.com d-i mirror/http/proxy string ### Clock and time zone setup # Controls whether or not the hardware clock is set to UTC. d-i clock-setup/utc boolean true # You may set this to any valid setting for $TZ; see the contents of # /usr/share/zoneinfo/ for valid values. d-i time/zone string Etc/UTC # Controls whether to use NTP to set the clock during the install d-i clock-setup/ntp boolean true ### Partitioning d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/sda # The presently available methods are: # - regular: use the usual partition types for your architecture # - lvm: use LVM to partition the disk # - crypto: use LVM within an encrypted partition d-i partman-auto/method string regular # If one of the disks that are going to be automatically partitioned # contains an old LVM configuration, the user will normally receive a # warning. This can be preseeded away... d-i partman-lvm/device_remove_lvm boolean true # The same applies to pre-existing software RAID array: d-i partman-md/device_remove_md boolean true # And the same goes for the confirmation to write the lvm partitions. d-i partman-lvm/confirm boolean true # For LVM partitioning, you can select how much of the volume group to use # for logical volumes. #d-i partman-auto-lvm/guided_size string max # You can choose one of the three predefined partitioning recipes: # - atomic: all files in one partition # - home: separate /home partition # - multi: separate /home, /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions d-i partman-auto/choose_recipe select atomic # If you just want to change the default filesystem from ext3 to something # else, you can do that without providing a full recipe. d-i partman/default_filesystem string ext4 # This makes partman automatically partition without confirmation, provided # that you told it what to do using one of the methods above. d-i partman-partitioning/confirm_write_new_label boolean true d-i partman/choose_partition select finish d-i partman/confirm boolean true d-i partman/confirm_nooverwrite boolean true ### Base system installation ### Account setup # To create a normal user account. d-i passwd/user-fullname string Full Name d-i passwd/username string fullname #d-i passwd/user-password password mypassword #d-i passwd/user-password-again password mypassword d-i passwd/user-password-crypted password HASHHERE # The installer will warn about weak passwords. If you are sure you know # what you're doing and want to override it, uncomment this. d-i user-setup/allow-password-weak boolean true # Set to true if you want to encrypt the first user's home directory. d-i user-setup/encrypt-home boolean false ### Apt setup # You can choose to install restricted and universe software, or to install # software from the backports repository. #d-i apt-setup/restricted boolean true #d-i apt-setup/universe boolean true #d-i apt-setup/backports boolean true # Uncomment this if you don't want to use a network mirror. #d-i apt-setup/use_mirror boolean false # Select which update services to use; define the mirrors to be used. # Values shown below are the normal defaults. #d-i apt-setup/services-select multiselect security #d-i apt-setup/security_host string security.ubuntu.com #d-i apt-setup/security_path string /ubuntu # Additional repositories, local[0-9] available #d-i apt-setup/local0/repository string \ # http://local.server/ubuntu squeeze main #d-i apt-setup/local0/comment string local server # Enable deb-src lines #d-i apt-setup/local0/source boolean true # URL to the public key of the local repository; you must provide a key or # apt will complain about the unauthenticated repository and so the # sources.list line will be left commented out #d-i apt-setup/local0/key string http://local.server/key ### Package selection #tasksel tasksel/force-tasks string server tasksel tasksel/first multiselect none # Individual additional packages to install d-i pkgsel/include string openssh-server # Whether to upgrade packages after debootstrap. # Allowed values: none, safe-upgrade, full-upgrade #d-i pkgsel/upgrade select full-upgrade # Language pack selection d-i pkgsel/language-packs multiselect en # No language support packages d-i pkgsel/install-language-support boolean false # Policy for applying updates. May be "none" (no automatic updates), # "unattended-upgrades" (install security updates automatically), or # "landscape" (manage system with Landscape). d-i pkgsel/update-policy select unattended-upgrades # Verbose output and no boot splash screen d-i debian-installer/quiet boolean false d-i debian-installer/splash boolean false ### Boot loader installation # This is fairly safe to set, it makes grub install automatically to the MBR # if no other operating system is detected on the machine. d-i grub-installer/only_debian boolean true # This one makes grub-installer install to the MBR if it also finds some other # OS, which is less safe as it might not be able to boot that other OS. d-i grub-installer/with_other_os boolean true # Wait for two seconds in grub d-i grub-installer/timeout string 0 # Use the following option to add additional boot parameters for the # installed system (if supported by the bootloader installer). # Note: options passed to the installer will be added automatically. d-i debian-installer/add-kernel-opts string vga=normal nomodeset audit=0 intel_idle.max_cstate=0 processor.max_cstate=1 cgroup_enable=memory swapaccount=1 ### Finishing up the installation # Avoid that last message about the install being complete. d-i finish-install/reboot_in_progress note #### Advanced options ### Running custom commands during the installation # d-i preseeding is inherently not secure. Nothing in the installer checks # for attempts at buffer overflows or other exploits of the values of a # preconfiguration file like this one. Only use preconfiguration files from # trusted locations! To drive that home, and because it's generally useful, # here's a way to run any shell command you'd like inside the installer, # automatically. # This first command is run as early as possible, just after # preseeding is read. #d-i preseed/early_command string anna-install some-udeb # This command is run immediately before the partitioner starts. It may be # useful to apply dynamic partitioner preseeding that depends on the state # of the disks (which may not be visible when preseed/early_command runs). #d-i partman/early_command \ # string debconf-set partman-auto/disk "$(list-devices disk | head -n1)" # This command is run just before the install finishes, but when there is # still a usable /target directory. You can chroot to /target and use it # directly, or use the apt-install and in-target commands to easily install # packages and run commands in the target system. d-i preseed/late_command string in-target wget --output-document=/tmp/post-install.sh http://preseed.handsoff.local/ubuntu-16-04/post-install.sh; in-target /bin/sh /tmp/post-install.sh