Debian 7.2 preseed.cfg with focus on a virtualbox development environment.

preseed.cfg

## Options to set on the command line
d-i debian-installer/language string en
d-i debian-installer/country string US
d-i debian-installer/locale string en_GB.UTF-8
# Optionally specify additional locales to be generated.
d-i localechooser/supported-locales multiselect en_US.UTF-8, de_DE.UTF-8

# Keyboard selection.
# keymap is an alias for keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap
d-i keymap select de

#d-i netcfg/get_hostname string dummy
d-i netcfg/get_hostname string unassigned-hostname
d-i netcfg/get_domain string unassigned-domain

# Continue without a default route
# Not working , specify a dummy in the DHCP
#d-i netcfg/no_default_route boolean

d-i time/zone string UTC
d-i clock-setup/utc-auto boolean true
d-i clock-setup/utc boolean true

#d-i kbd-chooser/method select American English

d-i netcfg/wireless_wep string

d-i base-installer/kernel/override-image string linux-server
#d-i base-installer/kernel/override-image string linux-image-2.6.32-21-generic

# Choices: Dialog, Readline, Gnome, Kde, Editor, Noninteractive
d-i debconf debconf/frontend select Noninteractive

d-i pkgsel/install-language-support boolean false
tasksel tasksel/first multiselect ssh-server

#d-i partman-auto/method string regular
d-i partman-auto/method string lvm
#d-i partman-auto/purge_lvm_from_device boolean true

d-i partman-lvm/confirm boolean true
d-i partman-lvm/device_remove_lvm boolean true
d-i partman-auto/choose_recipe select atomic

d-i partman/confirm_write_new_label boolean true
d-i partman/confirm_nooverwrite boolean true
d-i partman/choose_partition select finish
d-i partman/confirm boolean true

#http://ubuntu-virginia.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9626883
#Message: "write the changes to disk and configure lvm preseed"
#http://serverfault.com/questions/189328/ubuntu-kickstart-installation-using-lvm-waits-for-input
#preseed partman-lvm/confirm_nooverwrite boolean true

# Write the changes to disks and configure LVM?
d-i partman-lvm/confirm boolean true
d-i partman-lvm/confirm_nooverwrite boolean true
d-i partman-auto-lvm/guided_size string max



# root pw is "vagrant"
d-i passwd/root-password password vagrant
d-i passwd/root-password-again password vagrant



## Default user, we can get away with a recipe to change this
# adapt user from travis to vagrant
d-i passwd/user-fullname string vagrant
d-i passwd/username string vagrant
d-i passwd/user-password password vagrant
d-i passwd/user-password-again password vagrant
d-i user-setup/encrypt-home boolean false
d-i user-setup/allow-password-weak boolean true

## minimum is ntp, sudo
# Individual additional packages to install
d-i pkgsel/include string ntp sudo

# Whether to upgrade packages after debootstrap.
# Allowed values: none, safe-upgrade, full-upgrade
d-i pkgsel/upgrade select full-upgrade

d-i grub-installer/only_debian boolean true
d-i grub-installer/with_other_os boolean true
d-i finish-install/reboot_in_progress note

#For the update
d-i pkgsel/update-policy select none

# debconf-get-selections --install
### 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 manual
# hostname is ftp, however we still use http protocol
d-i mirror/http/hostname string ftp2.de.debian.org
d-i mirror/http/directory string /debian
d-i mirror/http/proxy string

# adding user(s) into sudo, as found on: http://lackof.org/taggart/hacking/d-i_preseed/
#d-i preseed/late_command string in-target update-alternatives --set editor /usr/bin/vim.tiny;echo "taggart  ALL=(ALL) ALL">>/target/etc/sudoers;sync
d-i preseed/late_command string in-target update-alternatives --set editor /usr/bin/vim.tiny;echo "vagrant ALL=NOPASSWD:ALL">>/target/etc/sudoers.d/vagrant;sync

# dispable popcontest
popularity-contest popularity-contest/participate boolean false

# This first command is run as early as possible, just after
# preseeding is read.
# Prevent packaged version of VirtualBox Guest Additions being installed:
d-i preseed/early_command string sed -i \
  '/in-target/idiscover(){/sbin/discover|grep -v VirtualBox;}' \
  /usr/lib/pre-pkgsel.d/20install-hwpackages