Debian/Ubuntu preseed generator?

All of these questions are related to the preseed support in the Debian Installer: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed Is there a means, perhaps a .ubeb Debian-Installer extension, by which I could capture all the selections from an interactive installation session into a valid preseed.txt file? Is there away to pause the interactive installer after installation, before reboot, to … Read more

How can partman partition more than one disk in a Debian installer preseed file?

Making partman partition a single disk is easy enough: d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/xvda d-i partman-auto/method string regular d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe string \ boot-swap :: \ 2048 2048 -1 ext3 \ $primary{ } \ $bootable{ } \ method{ format } \ format{ } \ use_filesystem{ } \ filesystem{ ext3 } \ mountpoint{ / } \ device{ /dev/xvda … Read more

Set keyboard layout in debian wheezy with preseed

I want to install debian automatically. I’ve copied the example preseed file into the initrd, and verified that it contains d-i keymap select us In the installation system, /var/log/syslog contains a line successfully loaded preseed file from file:///preseed.cfg but I still see the Configure the Keyboard dialog. How can I make the installation pick a … Read more

Ubuntu preseed. Use whole disk space, but no swap

I’m trying to make a installation usb stick for a equipment we have here. I would like to automate linux installation, because we have a lot of these machines to install. The machine has a 30GB SSD . I want preseed to use the entire disk to create an ext4 partition (mount point ‘/’) and … Read more