I wrote the previous post about this topic almost 6 months ago. Recently I had to review the process for a different project and I was curious if I could find an easier way to seed the installer options – preferably without modifying the original ISO file. Although there is more than one way to do it, I hope others would also find this method helpful.

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Edit: you may want to check out my updated post in this topic.

In one of my projects I needed to quickly install and/or reproduce virtual Ubuntu servers using QEMU+KVM. It’s nothing difficult but I decided to record the required steps here so I don’t have to remember it all the time. The overall process is the following:

• download an installation image, mount it and make a writable copy
• modify/replace isolinux.cfg and preseed files
• recreate ISO and test by booting from it

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