##### Contents of the preconfiguration file (for &releasename;) #### Localization ## Locale sets language and country. d-i debian-installer/locale string en_US ## Keyboard selection. ## Disable automatic (interactive) keymap detection. d-i console-setup/ask_detect boolean false ##d-i console-setup/modelcode string pc105 d-i console-setup/layoutcode string us ## To select a variant of the selected layout (if you leave this out, the ## basic form of the layout will be used): ##d-i console-setup/variantcode string dvorak #### 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 ## To pick a particular interface instead: ##d-i netcfg/choose_interface select eth1 ## If you have a slow dhcp server and the installer times out waiting for ## it, this might be useful. d-i netcfg/dhcp_timeout string 60 ## If you prefer to configure the network manually, uncomment this line and ## the static network configuration below. ##d-i netcfg/disable_dhcp boolean true ## If you want the preconfiguration file to work on systems both with and ## without a dhcp server, uncomment these lines and the static network ## configuration below. ##d-i netcfg/dhcp_failed note ##d-i netcfg/dhcp_options select Configure network manually ## Static network configuration. ##d-i netcfg/get_nameservers string 192.168.1.1 ##d-i netcfg/get_ipaddress string 192.168.1.42 ##d-i netcfg/get_netmask string 255.255.255.0 ##d-i netcfg/get_gateway string 192.168.1.1 ##d-i netcfg/confirm_static boolean true ## 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 # If you want to force a hostname, regardless of what either the DHCP # # server returns or what the reverse DNS entry for the IP is, uncomment # # and adjust the following line. #d-i netcfg/hostname string arcg7 ## Disable that annoying WEP key dialog. #d-i netcfg/wireless_wep string ## The wacky dhcp hostname that some ISPs use as a password of sorts. ##d-i netcfg/dhcp_hostname string radish ## If non-free firmware is needed for the network or other hardware, you can ## configure the installer to always try to load it, without prompting. Or ## change to false to disable asking. ##d-i hw-detect/load_firmware boolean true #### Mirror settings ## If you select ftp, the mirror/country string does not need to be set. ##d-i mirror/protocol string ftp d-i mirror/country string UK d-i mirror/http/hostname string ports.ubuntu.com #d-i mirror/http/directory string /ubuntu d-i mirror/http/proxy string http://10.33.11.31:3128 ## 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 CC.archive.ubuntu.com # ## Suite to install. ##d-i mirror/suite string &releasename; ## Suite to use for loading installer components (optional). ##d-i mirror/udeb/suite string &releasename; ## Components to use for loading installer components (optional). ##d-i mirror/udeb/components multiselect main, restricted # #### 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 US/Central # ## Controls whether to use NTP to set the clock during the install #d-i clock-setup/ntp boolean true ## NTP server to use. The default is almost always fine here. ##d-i clock-setup/ntp-server string ntp.example.com # #### Partitioning ## If the system has free space you can choose to only partition that space. ## Alternatives: custom, some_device, some_device_crypto, some_device_lvm. ##d-i partman-auto/init_automatically_partition select biggest_free # ## Alternatively, you can specify a disk to partition. The device name must ## be given in traditional non-devfs format. ## Note: A disk must be specified, unless the system has only one disk. ## For example, to use the first SCSI/SATA hard disk: ##d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/sda ## In addition, you'll need to specify the method to use. ## The presently available methods are: "regular", "lvm" and "crypto" 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 ##d-i partman-auto-lvm/guided_size string 10GB ##d-i partman-auto-lvm/guided_size string 50% # ## 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 # ## Or provide a recipe of your own... ## The recipe format is documented in the file devel/partman-auto-recipe.txt. ## If you have a way to get a recipe file into the d-i environment, you can ## just point at it. ##d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe_file string /hd-media/recipe # ## If not, you can put an entire recipe into the preconfiguration file in one ## (logical) line. This example creates a small /boot partition, suitable ## swap, and uses the rest of the space for the root partition: ##d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe string \ ## boot-root :: \ ## 40 50 100 ext3 \ ## $primary{ } $bootable{ } \ ## method{ format } format{ } \ ## use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext3 } \ ## mountpoint{ /boot } \ ## . \ ## 500 10000 1000000000 ext3 \ ## method{ format } format{ } \ ## use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext3 } \ ## mountpoint{ / } \ ## . \ ## 64 512 300% linux-swap \ ## method{ swap } format{ } \ ## . # ## 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/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 # #### Controlling how partitions are mounted ## The default is to mount by UUID, but you can also choose "traditional" to ## use traditional device names, or "label" to try filesystem labels before ## falling back to UUIDs. ##d-i partman/mount_style select uuid # #### Base system installation ## The kernel image (meta) package to be installed; "none" can be used if no ## kernel is to be installed. ##d-i base-installer/kernel/image string linux-generic # #### Account setup ## Skip creation of a root account (normal user account will be able to ## use sudo). The default is false; preseed this to true if you want to set ## a root password. d-i passwd/root-login boolean true ## Alternatively, to skip creation of a normal user account. d-i passwd/make-user boolean false # ## Root password, either in clear text d-i passwd/root-password password password d-i passwd/root-password-again password password ## or encrypted using an MD5 hash. #d-i passwd/root-password-crypted password 81b4534a4099472ee2bbad14e04ba51e # ## To create a normal user account. ##d-i passwd/user-fullname string Ubuntu User ##d-i passwd/username string ubuntu ## Normal user's password, either in clear text ##d-i passwd/user-password password insecure ##d-i passwd/user-password-again password insecure ## or encrypted using an MD5 hash. ##d-i passwd/user-password-crypted password [MD5 hash] ## Create the first user with the specified UID instead of the default. ##d-i passwd/user-uid string 1010 ## 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 # ## The user account will be added to some standard initial groups. To ## override that, use this. ##d-i passwd/user-default-groups string audio cdrom video # ## 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 &releasename; 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 # ## By default the installer requires that repositories be authenticated ## using a known gpg key. This setting can be used to disable that ## authentication. Warning: Insecure, not recommended. ##d-i debian-installer/allow_unauthenticated string true # #### Package selection #tasksel tasksel/first multiselect ubuntu-desktop ##tasksel tasksel/first multiselect lamp-server, print-server ##tasksel tasksel/first multiselect kubuntu-desktop # ## Individual additional packages to install d-i pkgsel/include string openssh-server build-essential nfs-common ## Whether to upgrade packages after debootstrap. ## Allowed values: none, safe-upgrade, full-upgrade ##d-i pkgsel/upgrade select none # ## Language pack selection ##d-i pkgsel/language-packs multiselect de, en, zh # ## 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 none # ## Some versions of the installer can report back on what software you have ## installed, and what software you use. The default is not to report back, ## but sending reports helps the project determine what software is most ## popular and include it on CDs. ##popularity-contest popularity-contest/participate boolean false # ## By default, the system's locate database will be updated after the ## installer has finished installing most packages. This may take a while, so ## if you don't want it, you can set this to "false" to turn it off. ##d-i pkgsel/updatedb boolean true # #### Boot loader installation ## Grub is the default boot loader (for x86). If you want lilo installed ## instead, uncomment this: ##d-i grub-installer/skip boolean true ## To also skip installing lilo, and install no bootloader, uncomment this ## too: ##d-i lilo-installer/skip boolean true # ## 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 # ## Alternatively, if you want to install to a location other than the mbr, ## uncomment and edit these lines: ##d-i grub-installer/only_debian boolean false ##d-i grub-installer/with_other_os boolean false ##d-i grub-installer/bootdev string (hd0,0) ## To install grub to multiple disks: ##d-i grub-installer/bootdev string (hd0,0) (hd1,0) (hd2,0) # ## Optional password for grub, either in clear text ##d-i grub-installer/password password r00tme ##d-i grub-installer/password-again password r00tme ## or encrypted using an MD5 hash, see grub-md5-crypt(8). ##d-i grub-installer/password-crypted password [MD5 hash] # #### Finishing up the installation ## During installations from serial console, the regular virtual consoles ## (VT1-VT6) are normally disabled in /etc/inittab. Uncomment the next ## line to prevent this. ##d-i finish-install/keep-consoles boolean true # ## Avoid that last message about the install being complete. #d-i finish-install/reboot_in_progress note # ## This will prevent the installer from ejecting the CD during the reboot, ## which is useful in some situations. ##d-i cdrom-detect/eject boolean false # ## This is how to make the installer shutdown when finished, but not ## reboot into the installed system. ##d-i debian-installer/exit/halt boolean true ## This will power off the machine instead of just halting it. ##d-i debian-installer/exit/poweroff boolean true # #### X configuration ## X can detect the right driver for some cards, but if you're preseeding, ## you override whatever it chooses. Still, vesa will work most places. ##xserver-xorg xserver-xorg/config/device/driver select vesa # ## A caveat with mouse autodetection is that if it fails, X will retry it ## over and over. So if it's preseeded to be done, there is a possibility of ## an infinite loop if the mouse is not autodetected. ##xserver-xorg xserver-xorg/autodetect_mouse boolean true # ## Monitor autodetection is recommended. #xserver-xorg xserver-xorg/autodetect_monitor boolean true ## Uncomment if you have an LCD display. ##xserver-xorg xserver-xorg/config/monitor/lcd boolean true ## X has three configuration paths for the monitor. Here's how to preseed ## the "medium" path, which is always available. The "simple" path may not ## be available, and the "advanced" path asks too many questions. #xserver-xorg xserver-xorg/config/monitor/selection-method \ # select medium #xserver-xorg xserver-xorg/config/monitor/mode-list \ # select 1024x768 @ 60 Hz # #### Preseeding other packages ## Depending on what software you choose to install, or if things go wrong ## during the installation process, it's possible that other questions may ## be asked. You can preseed those too, of course. To get a list of every ## possible question that could be asked during an install, do an ## installation, and then run these commands: ## debconf-get-selections --installer > file ## debconf-get-selections >> file # # ##### 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 apt-install zsh; in-target chsh -s /bin/zsh #