How can I customize the Ubuntu installer?

system-installation preseed custom-installer

I would like to know how can I customize the Ubuntu installer NOT customize Ubuntu, I just want to modify the installer.

We have a large environment here with lots of developers and since we don't use Windows, I want to customize the installer to automatically set the timezone to NYC, the keyboard layout to English USA, put the company logo in the installer etc...


I installed ubiquity:

sudo apt-get install ubiquity ubiquity-casper ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu ubiquity-frontend-gtk

and I made some modification to it. Since it is all HTML files it is very easy to customize.


For most of it you don't need to modify the installer, debian-installer provides facilities to automate installation by passing a few configurations to it; this is called preseeding:

  • https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/installation-guide/amd64/apb.html

You can do this via network installs or a custom boot USB or whatever.

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