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I am manually installing Ubuntu on the laptop from USB drive (ISO image). I would like to record my answers to the installation questions(language, keyboard layout, disk partitioning etc) and create pressed file (which feeds d-i answers to questions normally asked by debconf) to be used in the future to automate installation on identical/similar laptops/netbooks.

Tadek
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I've found this:

http://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/sect.automated-installation.html

Which gives me:

sudo apt-get install debconf-utils
sudo debconf-get-selections --installer

the later will dump the answered question in preseed's format, still a lot of garbage in the output. But the answer seems here.

execute it without root level to see the path of answer file, for me:

/var/log/installer/cdebconf/questions.dat

Some link(s) I've found, not enough reputation to post more ;)

At the bottom of this page you will find most of the main links to become a preseed master.

0xC0000022L
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Sylvain
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    This is not working on Ubuntu 18.10 :( – vikas027 Dec 15 '18 at 06:29
  • @vikas027 preseeding is very much a distro and release specific thing. The only way to work this out is by checking your preseed file against a new release or by looking for resources from others who have pioneered something like that for your desired Ubuntu release, e.g. here. And even if these may not provide canned solutions, they may turn out to be quite inspirational with respect to tricks you can use during preseeding. – 0xC0000022L Aug 07 '19 at 11:12