#### Contents of the preconfiguration file (for wheezy) # Preseeding only locale sets language, country and locale. d-i debian-installer/locale string en_US # Keyboard selection. d-i keymap select us d-i keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap select us d-i console-keymaps-at/keymap select us ### 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 # 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 # Any hostname and domain names assigned from dhcp take precedence over values set here. d-i netcfg/get_hostname string unassigned-hostname d-i netcfg/get_domain string unassigned-domain # Force a hostname #d-i netcfg/hostname string somehost # Disable that annoying WEP key dialog. d-i netcfg/wireless_wep string # If non-free firmware is needed for the network or other hardware, this will try to load it d-i hw-detect/load_firmware boolean true ### Mirror settings d-i mirror/country string manual d-i mirror/http/hostname string http.us.debian.org d-i mirror/http/directory string /debian d-i mirror/http/proxy string ### Account setup # Root password, d-i passwd/root-password-crypted password $6$CPlWX.5WLxqmNT2$VSJcR9FIZq4Efq32hMHmsB.qN7mbvDxxi3MueUjGVeSKp.t9EgYz5qFNWYpWKyvA66erkhJcHrqN3p/kgm/Y./ # To create a normal user account. d-i passwd/user-fullname string Remote admin user d-i passwd/username string xadmin d-i passwd/user-password-crypted password $6$8DdxHyrH6HfGZhDs$jEadYAMi3CTJivYgGjhG7S2C/ChZxv0w0L6AQ3Egn8K5xIA4OEqDngVfozfn.9kYxy.hWYpzwBE0qwytcU4BF0 d-i passwd/user-uid string 1000 ### Clock and time zone setup # Controls whether or not the hardware clock is set to UTC. d-i clock-setup/utc boolean false # 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 America/New_York # 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 #d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/sda d-i partman-auto/method string regular d-i partman-lvm/purge_lvm_from_device boolean true d-i partman-md/device_remove_lvm boolean true d-i partman-md/device_remove_md boolean true d-i partman-lvm/confirm boolean true # 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 #d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe string \ # boot-root :: \ # 1000 1000 1000 ext3 \ # $primary{ } $bootable{ } \ # method{ format } format{ } \ # use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext3 } \ # mountpoint{ /boot } \ # . \ # 256 512 768 linux-swap \ # method{ swap } format{ } \ # . \ # 5000 10000 1000000000 xfs \ # method{ format } format{ } \ # use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ xfs } \ # mountpoint{ / } \ # . 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 ## 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 ## Installing the bootloader # 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 ### 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-image-486 ### Apt setup # You can choose to install non-free and contrib software. d-i apt-setup/non-free boolean true d-i apt-setup/contrib 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, updates d-i apt-setup/security_host string security.debian.org # By default the installer requires that repositories be authenticated using a known gpg key. d-i debian-installer/allow_unauthenticated boolean true # Select the boot device to install to d-i grub-installer/bootdev string default # This will eject the installation media upon reboot d-i cdrom-detect/eject boolean true # Install combination of stuff tasksel tasksel/first multiselect standard # Individual additional packages to install d-i pkgsel/include string \ apt-transport-https \ curl \ dnsutils \ openssh-server \ nfs-common \ qemu-guest-agent \ sudo \ vim # Whether to upgrade packages after debootstrap. # Allowed values: none, safe-upgrade, full-upgrade d-i pkgsel/upgrade select none # Some versions of the installer can report back on what software you have installed, and what software you use. popularity-contest popularity-contest/participate boolean false # Avoid that last message about the install being complete. d-i finish-install/reboot_in_progress note #### Advanced options # 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 just before the install finishes, but when there is still a usable /target directory. #d-i preseed/late_command string in-target wget -O /root/post-install.sh http://tarsonis.metaunix.net/scripts/post-install.sh; in-target chmod +x /root/post-install.sh; in-target /root/post-install.sh d-i preseed/late_command string in-target usermod -aG sudo xadmin; in-target systemctl enable qemu-guest-agent