I know that there is a lot of information about headless and unattended installation of Ubuntu servers. But I need to install the desktop version of Trusty on a lot of machines and I would like to automate that. With the Kickstart and Preseed manuals I could not bring up an unattended install of Ubuntu 14.04. Desktop 64-bit.

Is somewhere out there a manual that I did not find? It would be great to get some help. I already spent a couple of hours on this.

My txt.cfg in /isolinux/:

default autoinstall

label autoinstall

     menu label ^Autoinstall Ubuntu POS-Server

     kernel /install/vmlinuz

     append preseed/file=/cdrom/preseed/pos.seed debian-installer/locale=de_DE console-setup/layoutcode=de initrd=/install/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=16384 ks=cdrom:/ks.cfg  root=/dev/ram rw --

My pos.seed in /preseed/:

d-i partman/confirm_write_new_label boolean true

d-i partman/choose_partition 

select Finish partitioning and write changes to disk

d-i partman/confirm boolean true



d-i debian-installer/locale string en_US.UTF-8

d-i debian-installer/splash boolean false

d-i console-setup/ask_detect boolean false

d-i console-setup/layoutcode string de

d-i console-setup/variantcode string



### Network

d-i netcfg/choose_interface select auto



## Keyboard configuration

d-i keyboard-configuration  keyboard-configuration/layoutcode       string  de

d-i keyboard-configuration  keyboard-configuration/layout   select  German

d-i keyboard-configuration  keyboard-configuration/variant  select  German

d-i keyboard-configuration  keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap       select  de



#### Advanced options

### Running custom commands during the installation

# This first command is run as early as possible, just after

# preseeding is read.

# if old filesystem present installer asks for unmount

d-i preseed/early_command string umount /media



### Package selection

# Individual additional packages to install

# Install the Ubuntu desktop.

tasksel tasksel/first multiselect ubuntu-desktop

d-i pkgsel/include string openssh-server build-essential

# Policy for applying updates. May be "none" (no automatic updates),

# "unattended-upgrades" (install security updates automatically), or

# "landscape" (manage system with Landscape).

d-i pkgsel/update-policy select none

# Enable extras.ubuntu.com.

d-i apt-setup/extras    boolean true

My ks.cfg in /:

#Generated by Kickstart Configurator

#platform=AMD64 or Intel EM64T



#System language

lang en_US

#Language modules to install

langsupport en_US

#System keyboard

keyboard de

#System mouse

mouse

#System timezone

timezone Europe/Berlin

#Root password

rootpw --disabled

#Initial user

user ****** --fullname "******" --iscrypted --password ******************

#Reboot after installation

reboot

#Use text mode install

text

#Install OS instead of upgrade

install

#Use CDROM installation media

cdrom

#System bootloader configuration

bootloader --location=mbr locale=de_DE console-setup/ask_detect=false keyboard-configuration/layoutcode=de

#Clear the Master Boot Record

zerombr yes

#Partition clearing information

clearpart --all --initlabel 

#Partitioning

part / --fstype ext4 --size 1 --grow --asprimary

part swap --recommended

part /boot --fstype ext4 --size 256 --asprimary

#System authorization infomation

auth  --useshadow  --enablemd5 

#Network configuration

network --bootproto=dhcp --device=eth0

#Firewall configuration

#firewall --disabled 

#Do not configure the X Window System

skipx

#custom packages for installation

%packages

openssh-server

ubuntu-desktop