HI, > The only way I've been able to get it to successfully connect to the internet is by including the wifi credentials in the network-config file. But since this uses Netplan, it requires a reboot to finally connect. Your mention of the additional reboot needed, reminds me of this bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cloud-init/+bug/1870346 which pointed to a netplan bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/netplan.io/+bug/1874377 which is now fixed. > But no additional packages the image needs are installed, since internet was not available when the image was created prior to reboot. > How can I overcome this? IIUC, with the lack of an network connection, then your custom cloud-config would not run to completion as it needed to install additional packages? On possible workaround is to pre-install the packages in your image without booting. Cloud-init project uses a command, mount-image-callback, from the cloud-image-utils package. On an existing Ubuntu system (of the same arch) where you have your image, you can do something like: sudo mount-image-callback --system-mounts --system-resolvconf <image file> -- chroot _MOUNTPOINT_ /bin/bash -c 'apt update && apt install -y pkg1 pkg2 ...' Hope that helps, Ryan On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 7:16 AM Jim Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm trying to set up Ubuntu Server on a Raspberry Pi 3 using cloud-init. > I would like to be able to create a customized image by copying the default > image to an SD card, then copying new versions of user-data and > network-config over the default ones. > > However, I can't seem to do this when the Pi doesn't have an ethernet > connection (i.e., it's on wifi only). The only way I've been able to get > it to successfully connect to the internet is by including the wifi > credentials in the network-config file. But since this uses Netplan, it > requires a reboot to finally connect. But no additional packages the image > needs are installed, since internet was not available when the image was > created prior to reboot. > > How can I overcome this? > > -Jim > -- > ~ sent from my pedal-powered computer (pedalpc.com) ~ > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~cloud-init > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~cloud-init > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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