Are you tired of typing a hostname, username, password and WiFi password every time you flash Nexus7 with Ubuntu Core images? Do you wish to automate those boring steps? Do you wish you could reboot into fastboot mode over ssh without reaching and fiddling with volume down and power keys? Now you can! $ bzr branch lp:~ubuntu-nexus7/ubuntu-nexus7/preseed Has a nifty command called $ ./prepare-preseed By default it takes preseed.cfg, attempts to copy wifi.cfg or fetch current active WiFi connection settings from Network Manager's /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/* downloads latest bootimg and twiddles it to include all of the above. After that you can fastboot flash standard user-data image + this cusom bootimg and voila, upon fastboot reboot ubiquity will come up and will automatically answer all the questions for you and boot into desktop with wifi connected. If you want to customize settings simply edit the sample preseed.cfg. If you do not want to a...
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