I would like to know how can I customize the Ubuntu installer NOT customize Ubuntu, I just want to modify the installer. We have a large environment here with lots of developers and since we don’t use Windows, I want to customize the installer to automatically set the timezone to NYC, the keyboard layout to … Read more
Purpose I want to install Ubuntu Desktop 16.04.1 LTS completely unattended. Put ISO CD in and walk away. Issues Boot parameters incorrect Questions still being asked and needing mouse clicks Convoluted answers using kickstart/preseed Documentation examples no working as stated, specifically from partman and ubunutu I came across this post here and it was close … Read more
All of these questions are related to the preseed support in the Debian Installer: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed Is there a means, perhaps a .ubeb Debian-Installer extension, by which I could capture all the selections from an interactive installation session into a valid preseed.txt file? Is there away to pause the interactive installer after installation, before reboot, to … Read more
Making partman partition a single disk is easy enough: d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/xvda d-i partman-auto/method string regular d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe string \ boot-swap :: \ 2048 2048 -1 ext3 \ $primary{ } \ $bootable{ } \ method{ format } \ format{ } \ use_filesystem{ } \ filesystem{ ext3 } \ mountpoint{ / } \ device{ /dev/xvda … Read more
I want to install debian automatically. I’ve copied the example preseed file into the initrd, and verified that it contains d-i keymap select us In the installation system, /var/log/syslog contains a line successfully loaded preseed file from file:///preseed.cfg but I still see the Configure the Keyboard dialog. How can I make the installation pick a … Read more
I’m trying to make a installation usb stick for a equipment we have here. I would like to automate linux installation, because we have a lot of these machines to install. The machine has a 30GB SSD . I want preseed to use the entire disk to create an ext4 partition (mount point ‘/’) and … Read more
