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sidebar_current: automatic-operating-system-installs
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page_title: Automatic OS Installs
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description: |-
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Learn how to use preseed, kickstart, and autounattend files to automatically
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answer installation questions and enable Packer to connect to your instnace.
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# Automatic OS Installs
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If you are building from a brand-new and unconfigured operating system
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image, Packer will need you to perform the operating system install before it
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can connect to and configure your image using its provisioners. Most operating
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system distributions have a mechanism for performing the normally-interactive
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installation in an automated way. For Debian operating systems, this is done
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using a preseed file; for Windows, it's done using an Autounattend.xml. We have
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compiled some simple guides here for common operating system distributions.
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These guides are meant to give you a quick introduction to how to use automated
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installation answer files in order to perfom those installs; we don't mean to
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be a comprehensive guide on each operating system, but we hope to give you
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enough context to be able to more easily find any further information you need.
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Please use the left-hand navigation to find instructions for the operating
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system that is relevant to you.
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