[Bug 191417] Re: oem-config should draft a preseed file

[Taihsiang Ho]

[patch proposal]
150610-add-feature-to-preseed-by-boot-parameters
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Add feature to preseed by using boot parameters at stage 3 (OOBE) installation.
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The current binary package oem-config does not support the feature to preseed by using boot parameters at stage 3, Out-of-box experience, OOBE. By mimicking the implement of casper, getting boot parameters from /proc/cmdline and apply associated preseed files if any, before oem-config-firstboot launches.
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This feature will benefit oem vendors to perform automatic tests for different known end users with different system configuration but the same skeleton oem-installed system. Thus, end users may have better OOBE experience and system updating support.
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Patch regression risk: Low
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This patch only add one more case option and the feature is isolated to other features.


** Attachment added: "150610-add-feature-to-preseed-by-boot-parameters"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/191417/+attachment/4412513/+files/150610-add-feature-to-preseed-by-boot-parameters

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Fix Committed

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Title:
  oem-config should draft a preseed file

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed
Status in oem-config package in Baltix:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: oem-config

  Wishlist item:

  It would be extremely helpful if oem-config could draft a preseed
  file.

  When setting up a machine in oem mode, the installer asks me a lot of
  questions, and I often know how the end users will answer. If along
  the way oem-config recorded the answers in a preseed file, I would
  have a way to replicate the install for the rest of the machines the
  customer ordered using the preseed file thus created. Even better, I
  could keep the preseed files and reuse them for other customers with
  the same or similar needs.

  Every effort to increase the efficiency of installing Ubuntu in
  production settings is much appreciated.

  Happy Trails,

  Loye Young
  Isaac & Young Computer Company
  Laredo, Texas
  http://www.iycc.biz

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