Hi Nish,
No, specifying a KS file instead of a preseed file in the "Kickstart" drop
(using cobbler-web here...) makes the install blow up as I described in my
earlier post. I suspect that a distribution of breed "ubuntu" makes Cobbler
want to use a preseed ("d-i") format file instead of a kickstart, since that is
the "native" answer file format for that distro type...
-----Original Message-----
From: Nishanth Aravamudan [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2014 3:53 PM
To: Will Dennis
Cc: cobbler mailing list
Subject: Re: [cobbler] Can deploy Ubuntu using a kickstart file rather than a
preseed?
On 25.09.2014 [19:40:12 +0000], Will Dennis wrote:
> Thanks, Alastair. Guess I'll be learning Debian Installer syntax then
> ;)
Yeah, I'd recommend d-i as the default, but it's painful and preseed is not
well-documented (especially the hidden options/values to make for a NQA (no
questions asked) install).
>
> Would be cool in the future if Cobbler could support either d-i or
> kickstart for breed "ubuntu", since there is support now, and I'd
> wager most Cobbler users are more familiar with kickstart...
I don't think it's worth doing until it's fully supported by Ubuntu.
But, I don't see why you can't just have your profile use a kickstart and it
wouldn't just work? I don't believe that Cobbler really knows about the syntax
of the file used to netboot, it just treats it as a template, etc. I might be
wrong, though.
That is, for your system, just point it's kickstart entry to a kickstart file
instead of a preseed. Does that work?
-Nish
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