Base Ubuntu Configuration

gistfile1.txt

# Standard Server Setup File
# Copyright 2012 Richard Mark - All Rights Reserved

# Set the locale to English - United States - UTF 8
d-i	debian-installer/locale	string en_US.UTF-8

d-i	debian-installer/splash boolean false

# Use automatic configuration of the network settings
d-i netcfg/choose_interface select auto
d-i netcfg/get_hostname string unassigned-hostname
d-i netcfg/get_domain string unassigned-domain
d-i hw-detect/load_firmware boolean true

# Set the keyboard layout to English
d-i	console-setup/ask_detect	boolean false
d-i	console-setup/layoutcode	string us

# Set the time and time zone to US - Pacific
d-i	clock-setup/utc	boolean true
d-i time/zone string America/Los_Angeles

# Automatically setup LVM partition with entire disk
d-i partman-auto/method string lvm
d-i partman-auto/choose_recipe select atomic
d-i partman-lvm/device_remove_lvm boolean true
d-i partman-lvm/confirm boolean true
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
d-i partman/default_filesystem string ext4

# Use the default network time protocol server
d-i clock-setup/utc boolean true
d-i	clock-setup/ntp	boolean true
d-i	clock-setup/ntp-server	string ntp.ubuntu.com

# Use the linux-server variant of the kernal
d-i	base-installer/kernel/image	string linux-server

# Configure default user accounts
d-i	passwd/root-login	boolean false
d-i	passwd/make-user	boolean true
d-i	passwd/user-fullname	string Richard Mark
d-i	passwd/username	string rickmark
d-i	passwd/user-password-crypted password $6$7sk5lsm2Xj/6oewp$3e20TalN14VknUhR5K9O3PG7KuF32nAr3ysyLdEDa9hm9tKS5.VPRz5YYDZlPDO7dGyzPs7sS2H3EwdoK4nQw0
d-i	passwd/user-uid	string 
d-i	user-setup/allow-password-weak	boolean true
d-i	user-setup/encrypt-home	boolean false
d-i	passwd/user-default-groups	string adm cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

# Automatically apply security updates
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
d-i	debian-installer/allow_unauthenticated	string false
d-i	pkgsel/upgrade	select safe-upgrade
d-i	pkgsel/language-packs	multiselect 
d-i	pkgsel/update-policy	select unattended-upgrades
d-i	pkgsel/updatedb	boolean true

# Select base packages
d-i apt-setup/universe boolean true
d-i	pkgsel/include string vim openssh-server ruby1.9.1-full build-essential

# Settings affecting the install of the bootloader and finalize install
d-i	grub-installer/skip	boolean false
d-i	lilo-installer/skip	boolean false
d-i	grub-installer/only_debian	boolean true
d-i	grub-installer/with_other_os	boolean true
d-i	finish-install/keep-consoles	boolean false
d-i	finish-install/reboot_in_progress	note 
d-i	cdrom-detect/eject	boolean true
d-i	debian-installer/exit/halt	boolean false
d-i	debian-installer/exit/poweroff	boolean false