Hi Piere, Thanks for the response. I did see the ntp section after posting it and setting it to something local made a small difference.
My solution in the end was to add: # This line will contact archive.<domain>/ubuntu d-i apt-setup/security_host string archive/ubuntu This caused the installer not to reach out to the internet and use the address that I specified resulting in a significantly faster install. Regards On 15 September 2015 at 04:50, Pierre Equoy <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Gerhardus, > > In your preseed file I see this: > d-i clock-setup/ntp-server string ntp.ubuntu.com > > That means, at least at this stage, the installer will try to sync with > the NTP server at Ubuntu.com. > > There might be other stages where by default the installer tries to reach > out the Web (e.g. it might check for new versions of packages), and that > may need to be disabled using some additional preseed info. > > Sorry to be so vague, I'm not familiar with the internals of the Ubiquity > installer. > > Another option might be to set up the timeout to be very short, as > explained in this Wiki article [1]. > > Hope this helps! > > > [1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallCDCustomization > > > On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 7:56 PM, Gerhardus Geldenhuis < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi >> I am trying to get Ubuntu installed without any internet access. >> >> For various reasons we have chosen to use Razor as our installation tool. >> >> Razor is creating a preseed file which I have attached. >> >> So a bit of background, >> razor allows you to create an install repo with either a CD/DVD image or >> with a http based repository. The problem seems to be that the ubuntu >> installer once it has pxe booted and got the preseed file, is trying to >> access the internet. Because it can't access the internet it then times out >> on every request and it means that installation takes forever. >> >> The relevant part of the preseed file I beli >> d-i live-installer/net-image string >> http://10.255.10.1:8080/svc/repo/gerrard_ubuntu14/install/filesystem.squashfs >> d-i mirror/protocol string http >> d-i mirror/country string manual >> d-i mirror/http/hostname string 10.255.10.1:8080 >> d-i mirror/http/directory string /svc/repo/gerrard_ubuntu14/ >> d-i mirror/udeb/components multiselect main >> >> The repo that is being referred here were created by Razor and is >> effectively an extract of the ISO image for Ubuntu server 14.04. >> >> I have created a separate mirror that I use afterwards to install updates >> and packages from but it seems that I need to somehow merge the ISO and >> mirror repos into one. >> >> I am not sure if razor is doing the correct thing and would really >> appreciate any steering with regards to what is wrong in my preseed file. >> How can I get the d-i to not try and access the internet but concern itself >> only with internal repositories and mirrors. >> >> Regards >> >> >> -- >> Gerhardus Geldenhuis >> >> -- >> Ubuntu-installer mailing list >> [email protected] >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-installer >> >> > > > -- > Pierre Equoy > QA & Certification Engineer | Canonical > www.canonical.com | www.ubuntu.com > -- Gerhardus Geldenhuis
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