Background: I have lately been wiping the hard drives of some old PCs that I own, and slapping on an 18.3 version of Linux Mint -- for the purposes of giving them away (or selling cheaply). Why the Ubuntu 18.3 version and not my beloved LMDE version? Because LMDE is a bit too old, and I didn't want to delay until the next version comes out. In any case, I was beginning to find it tedious to do a 'real' install with a 'fake' userid/password, then updating the software, etc. Then I took more notice of the 'OEM' option that was available. I didn't know why my GRUB2 direct-ISO boot was not giving that option to me, until I just discovered that the secret is having this parameters on the grub line:
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oem-config/enable=true only-ubiquity