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I ran an Ubuntu Server install with the OEM option turned on.

When it boots it goes to the login for the account created during install. Nothing showed on screen during the first boot on either a physical system or inside a VM.

There is nothing allowing it to be setup by the end user. If I try oem-config it says it's not installed, installing it tries to install the whole Ubuntu Desktop.

Is OEM install of Ubuntu SERVER possible or was the feature left in the boot menu by accident?

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I was just working with OEM installs with server over the last couple of days, and you're right. It seems that OEM install just plain does not work on server 14.04.

I perform the same OEM install using 15.10 and everything works as expected. Running "oem-config-prepare" sets it up to run through the install steps again after reboot.

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Finally got this working on server 14.04.04!

(probably all 14.04 versions)

In the installer, highlight "Install Ubuntu Server", then hit F6 for "Other Options", then hit Esc to back out of that menu. This will display the command line syntax for each install option. With the main install option selected, you'll see the following on the "Boot Options" line:

file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu-server.seed vga=788 initrd=/install/initrd.gz quiet --

You need to add the option oem-config/enable=true somewhere before the -- to get it to actually boot into OEM install mode, like this:

file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu-server.seed oem-config/enable=true vga=788 initrd=/install/initrd.gz quiet --

Once I added that, it booted with the OEM mode (for manufacturers only) text at the top of the install process screen, it configured only the OEM user, and allowed me to use oem-config-prepare when I was done customizing.

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