Automated Server Installs
Introduction
The server installer for 20.04 supports a new mode of operation: automated installation, autoinstallation for
short. You might also know this feature as unattended or handsoff or preseeded installation.
Autoinstallation lets you answer all those configuration questions ahead of time with an
autoinstall config
and lets the installation process run without any interaction.
Differences from debian-installer preseeding
preseeds are the way to automate an installer based on debian-installer (aka d-i).
autoinstalls for the new server installer differ from preseeds in the following main ways:
• the format is completely different (cloud-init config, usually yaml, vs debconf-set-selections format)
• when the answer to a question is not present in a preseed, d-i stops and asks the user for input.
autoinstalls are not like this: by default, if there is any autoinstall config at all, the installer takes the
default for any unanswered question (and fails if there is no default).
– You can designate particular sections in the config as “interactive”, which means the installer will
still stop and ask about those.
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