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Debian simple preseed
# Preseeding only locale sets language, country and locale.
d-i debian-installer/locale string en_US
# 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 set a different link detection timeout (default is 3 seconds).
# Values are interpreted as seconds.
d-i netcfg/link_wait_timeout string 10
# Keyboard selection.
d-i keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap select us
# 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 ganymede-rs1
d-i netcfg/get_domain string slash16.local
# 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 ganymede-rs1
# Disable that annoying WEP key dialog.
d-i netcfg/wireless_wep string
# 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
d-i mirror/http/hostname string ftp.fr.debian.org
d-i mirror/http/directory string /debian
d-i mirror/http/proxy string
# Skip creation of a normal user account.
d-i passwd/make-user boolean false
# Root password, either in clear text
# or encrypted using a crypt(3) hash.
# Right now it's "helloworld"
d-i passwd/root-password-crypted password $6$633fa5790c74f476$10hyWPvc.4saHWzuhj5LafvBgKnbXiYd.DUMXfS53baZ7DMEYuxacjrmh6cBWcBLQDir6gg0fy86bwdRxqBCL1
# 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 Europe/Paris
# Controls whether to use NTP to set the clock during the install
d-i clock-setup/ntp boolean true
d-i partman-basicfilesystems/choose_label string gpt
d-i partman-basicfilesystems/default_label string gpt
d-i partman-partitioning/choose_label string gpt
d-i partman-partitioning/default_label string gpt
d-i partman/choose_label string gpt
d-i partman/default_label string gpt
partman-partitioning partman-partitioning/choose_label select gpt
d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/sda
d-i partman-basicfilesystems/no_swap boolean false
d-i partman-auto/method string regular
d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe string \
boot-root :: \
4500 2000 4500 ext4 \
$primary{ } $bootable{ } \
method{ format } format{ } \
use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext4 } \
mountpoint{ / } \
. \
2000 10000 100000000 ext4 \
method{ format } format{ } \
use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext4 } \
mountpoint{ /opt } \
.
d-i partman-partitioning/confirm_write_new_label boolean true
d-i partman/choose_partition select finish
d-i partman/confirm boolean true
d-i partman/confirm_nooverwrite boolean true
# When disk encryption is enabled, skip wiping the partitions beforehand.
d-i partman-auto-crypto/erase_disks boolean false
tasksel tasksel/first multiselect standard, ssh-server
# Individual additional packages to install
d-i pkgsel/include string openssh-server build-essential
# Some versions of the installer can report back on what software you have
# installed, and what software you use. The default is not to report back,
# but sending reports helps the project determine what software is most
# popular and include it on CDs.
popularity-contest popularity-contest/participate boolean false
# This is fairly safe to set, it makes grub install automatically to the MBR
# if no other operating system is detected on the machine.
d-i grub-installer/only_debian boolean true
d-i grub-installer/bootdev string /dev/sda
# Avoid that last message about the install being complete.
d-i finish-install/reboot_in_progress note
# This will prevent the installer from ejecting the CD during the reboot,
# which is useful in some situations.
d-i cdrom-detect/eject boolean true
# DANGEROUS !!!
# Post installation script for activating ssh through root and permit password connection
# Used to ease Ansible installation
# Delete this if you want to use it in production and use another way for provisionning
d-i preseed/late_command string \
cd /target; \
sed -i -e 's/#PermitRootLogin.*$/PermitRootLogin yes/g' etc/ssh/sshd_config; \
sh -c 'echo "" >> etc/network/interfaces'; \
sh -c 'echo "allow-hotplug enp0s8" >> etc/network/interfaces'; \
sh -c 'echo "iface enp0s8 inet dhcp" >> etc/network/interfaces'
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