Basic Preseed Example
Created using Instalinux
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# PRESEED - Created Wed Jul 6 15:23:51 2011
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# Wiki: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed
# Great work! Thanks for preseed and the d-i installer
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# Installation Sources
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# Where are we pulling bits from?
# Note: To use your own local repository, this is what you want
# to edit.
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# It should look like this:
#d-i mirror/http/hostname string (IP Address of your local server)
#d-i mirror/http/directory string (HTTP Path to your Repository - like /natty )
d-i mirror/http/hostname string ftp.au.debian.org
d-i mirror/http/directory string /debian/
d-i mirror/suite string squeeze
# Post install APT setup
d-i apt-setup/uri_type select d-i
d-i apt-setup/hostname string ftp.au.debian.org
d-i apt-setup/directory string /debian/
d-i apt-setup/another boolean false
d-i apt-setup/security-updates boolean false
d-i finish-install/reboot_in_progress note
d-i prebaseconfig/reboot_in_progress note
d-i apt-setup/non-free boolean true
d-i apt-setup/contrib boolean true
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# Networking
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# Network Configuration
d-i netcfg/get_hostname string localhost
d-i netcfg/get_domain string localdomain
d-i netcfg/disable_dhcp boolean false
d-i mirror/http/proxy string
d-i netcfg/choose_interface select eth0
d-i netcfg/wireless_wep string
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# Disk Partitioning/Boot loader
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d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/sda
d-i partman-auto/method string regular
# This makes partman automatically partition without confirmation.
d-i partman/confirm boolean true
d-i partman-partitioning/confirm_write_new_label boolean true
d-i partman/choose_partition select finish
d-i partman/confirm_nooverwrite boolean true
# This one makes grub-installer install to the MBR even if finds some other OS
# too, which is less safe as it might not be able to boot that other OS.
d-i grub-installer/with_other_os boolean true
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# Localizations
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# Install Time
d-i console-tools/archs string skip-config
d-i debian-installer/locale string en_US
d-i console-keymaps-at/keymap select us
d-i languagechooser/language-name-fb select English
d-i debian-installer/locale select en_US.UTF-8
# Timezone
d-i tzconfig/gmt boolean true
d-i tzconfig/choose_country_zone/US select Pacific
d-i tzconfig/choose_country_zone_single boolean true
d-i time/zone select US/Pacific
d-i clock-setup/utc boolean true
d-i kbd-chooser/method select American English
d-i mirror/country string manual
d-i clock-setup/ntp boolean false
# X11 config
xserver-xorg xserver-xorg/autodetect_monitor boolean true
xserver-xorg xserver-xorg/config/monitor/selection-method select medium
xserver-xorg xserver-xorg/config/monitor/mode-list select 1024x768 @ 60 Hz
xserver-xorg xserver-xorg/config/display/modes multiselect 1024x768, 800x600
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# User Creation
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# Root User
d-i passwd/root-password-crypted passwd $1$Z3FPzy9L$Ky11CmcQQK5LaGeYR3qub0
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# Software Selections
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tasksel tasksel/first multiselect standard
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# Additional preseed entries (from data/debconf)
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exim4-config exim4/no_config boolean true