add a new user stack with sudoers privileges (start of using sudo again)
diff --git a/apts/nova b/apts/nova
index a846b06..eb85e26 100644
--- a/apts/nova
+++ b/apts/nova
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 dnsmasq-base
 kpartx
 mysql-server
-mysql-common # install mysql-common/client explicitly since mysql-server isn't bootstrapped
-mysql-client-5.1
 python-mysqldb
 kvm
 gawk
@@ -15,11 +13,6 @@
 vlan
 curl
 rabbitmq-server
-erlang-base # install erlang deps for rabbit explicitly since we don't install rabbit during bootstrap
-erlang-ssl 
-erlang-nox
-erlang-inets
-erlang-mnesia
 socat # used by ajaxterm
 python-mox
 python-paste
diff --git a/apts/preseed b/apts/preseed
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d64c3b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apts/preseed
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+# a collection of packages that speed up installation as they are dependencies
+# of packages we can't install during bootstraping (rabbitmq-server, 
+# mysql-server, libvirt-bin)
+#
+# NOTE: only add packages to this file that aren't needed directly
+mysql-common
+mysql-client-5.1
+erlang-base
+erlang-ssl 
+erlang-nox
+erlang-inets
+erlang-mnesia