[cobbler] Fwd: RE: Can deploy Ubuntu using a kickstart file rather than a preseed?

2014-09-25 Thread alastair
https://help.ubuntu.com/14.04/installation-guide/amd64/apb.html https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/installation-guide/i386/appendix-preseed.html Original Message Subject: RE: [cobbler] Can deploy Ubuntu using a kickstart file rather than a preseed? Date: 2014-09-25 22:17 From: Wil

Re: [cobbler] Can deploy Ubuntu using a kickstart file rather than a preseed?

2014-09-25 Thread Nishanth Aravamudan
On 25.09.2014 [21:11:49 +], Will Dennis wrote: > 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

Re: [cobbler] Can deploy Ubuntu using a kickstart file rather than a preseed?

2014-09-25 Thread Will Dennis
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 kicks

[cobbler] Fwd: RE: Can deploy Ubuntu using a kickstart file rather than a preseed?

2014-09-25 Thread alastair
I seem to have replied to Will rather than the list via my phone :) Original Message Subject: RE: [cobbler] Can deploy Ubuntu using a kickstart file rather than a preseed? Date: 2014-09-25 20:53 From: Alastair Munro To: Will Dennis <> Hi I suspect kickstart support in ubun

Re: [cobbler] Can deploy Ubuntu using a kickstart file rather than a preseed?

2014-09-25 Thread Nishanth Aravamudan
On 25.09.2014 [19:40:12 +], 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) i

Re: [cobbler] Can deploy Ubuntu using a kickstart file rather than a preseed?

2014-09-25 Thread Will Dennis
Thanks, Alastair. Guess I'll be learning Debian Installer syntax then ;) 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... Best, Will -Original Me

Re: [cobbler] Can deploy Ubuntu using a kickstart file rather than a preseed?

2014-09-25 Thread alastair
Debian/ubuntu uses debian installer. All lines start d-i. See this that I wrote: https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/wiki/Using%20template%20scripts%20for%20Debian%20and%20Ubuntu%20seeds Use the cobbler sample.seed and then replace the pre and post seed files with your own, with embedded snippe

Re: [cobbler] SOLVED second system won't boot

2014-09-25 Thread Alan Evangelista
On 09/23/2014 11:08 AM, Jeremy wrote: On 09/22/2014 07:53 PM, Alan Evangelista wrote: On 09/22/2014 08:46 PM, Jeremy wrote: The solution was to cobbler profile edit --name=fedora20-x86_64 --kopts="ksdevice=bootdev ifname=bootdev:\$(mac_address_eth0)" I assume eth0 is the network interface

[cobbler] Can deploy Ubuntu using a kickstart file rather than a preseed?

2014-09-25 Thread Will Dennis
Hi all, Went looking for an automated way to install a bunch of Ubuntu (14.04) nodes I had to bring up, and happily found that Ubuntu now supports Kickstart (albeit in a non-complete way...) https://help.ubuntu.com/14.04/installation-guide/amd64/ch04s06.html#kickstart https://help.ubuntu.com/com