oem-config should draft a preseed file

[Loye Young]

Binary package hint: oem-config

Wishlist item:

It would be extremely helpful if oem-config could draft a preseed file.

When setting up a machine in oem mode, the installer asks me a lot of questions, and I often know how the end users will answer. If along the way oem-config recorded the answers in a preseed file, I would have a way to replicate the install for the rest of the machines the customer ordered using the preseed file thus created. Even better, I could keep the preseed files and reuse them for other customers with the same or similar needs.

Every effort to increase the efficiency of installing Ubuntu in production settings is much appreciated.

Happy Trails,

Loye Young
Isaac & Young Computer Company
Laredo, Texas
http://www.iycc.biz

[Taihsiang Ho (tai271828)]

[patch proposal]
150610-add-feature-to-preseed-by-boot-parameters
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Add feature to preseed by using boot parameters at stage 3 (OOBE) installation.
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The current binary package oem-config does not support the feature to preseed by using boot parameters at stage 3, Out-of-box experience, OOBE. By mimicking the implement of casper, getting boot parameters from /proc/cmdline and apply associated preseed files if any, before oem-config-firstboot launches.
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This feature will benefit oem vendors to perform automatic tests for different known end users with different system configuration but the same skeleton oem-installed system. Thus, end users may have better OOBE experience and system updating support.
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Patch regression risk: Low
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This patch only add one more case option and the feature is isolated to other features.

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This issue has sat incomplete for more than 60 days now. I'm going to close it as invalid. Please feel free re-open if this is still an issue for you. Thank you.