Kickstart is an automatic installation method of Linux originally developed by RedHat. Answers to questions during installation are pre-defined in a kickstart file (Default: ks.cfg).
I am looking for a way to do this offline with Edubuntu 14.04 desktop. It would install much faster and better for large-scale deployments. It seems that contrary to some guides, kickstart is no longer required. These resources got me really…
I'm trying to automatically install Ubuntu on a client PC by using the PXE BOOT method....my Objectives are below:
I am following the steps given in this link installation using PXE BOOT
the server will have a KICKSTART
config file which contains…
I'm trying to install Ubuntu 12.10 with PXE (Cobbler) and Kickstart from a local server.
At some point, the installation stops telling me it cannot upload a file from mirror.
The install log on the workstation looks fine and here's the end of the…
Goal
Using the latest LTS server iso (alternate), which at the time of writing is ubuntu-18.04.1-server-amd64.iso, I want to be able to do an installation, using a preseed and a kickstart file hosted on a webserver, however I cannot use DHCP.
So I…
I'm trying to make a USB installer for Ubuntu Server 14.04, but I'm having some trouble with the preseed file when booting from USB.
I have a kickstart file and a preseed. The kickstart file works, but the preseed doesn't. This is only an issue,…
I have used the kickstart generator tool to generate a kickstart/preseed file for ubuntu KVM installations which has worked well until now. It stopped working when I switched over to using a very weak password, which results it halting on an…
I attempted to create a custom ubuntu installer (based on server edition) like:
How do I create a completely unattended install of Ubuntu?
and:
How to create a Customized Ubuntu Server ISO?
but it failed miserably.
The txt.cfg looks like…
Has anyone successfully created a bootable USB key that will use preseed and kickstart?
All the tutorials titled 'automated install ubuntu with usb' etc, have cdrom/.. as the iso path.
When i attempt to burn my finished iso to a USB key it goes to…
*****UPDATE: I have now implemented a hack which solves this problem. I am still looking for help as I don't really consider the hack a solution. I booted shell (alt+f4) once the computer hung-up on a failure to mount cd-room and typed "tail -n…
I want to create a custom Ubuntu server distro that automatically installs and runs a specific program only on the target machine. I've found a very good guide here:
How to create a customized ubuntu server iso
I want to remove all the bloat that…
I have built an unattended setup ISO for Ubuntu 12.04.4 using instructions provided on the community wiki, however, I'm having a hard time with two specific pieces of the install:
The installer hangs for a couple of minutes about three minutes into…
I am trying to automate Ubuntu installations using Cobbler and preseed.
I referred to this officical sample seed file for Ubuntu: https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/installation-guide/example-preseed.txt
I only edited the network related part in this…
I provision few boxes using PXE with Cobbler. My network is not very stable, so sometimes the installation fails. The installer is not able to retrieve a package.
Is it possible to make the installer to reboot on any error? I don't want to waste…
Due to (very) long-time bug in system-config-kickstart, the package selection section does not list available packages, one has to edit the ks.cfg: This question explains how.
An example given in the question is
%packages
@…
