At work we often need to install Ubuntu Server and several extra packages while offline. To make this faster, I'm creating a custom Ubuntu Server install via preseeding (following this documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallCDCustomization). Installing extra packages was easy and works well.
In addition to adding a few packages, I would like to add another repository to the default set. This is where it seems to get tricky. Remember that, at install time, these computers are offline. However, I need to add an online repository to the list along with adding its key. Adding the repo to the list is easy with
d-i apt-setup/local0/repository string <repo url>
But the key NEEDS TO BE ADDED OFFLINE. So I downloaded the key and added it to the ISO (I made a new "keys" directory), thinking that I should be able to access it like the isolinux/txt.cfg file (specifically, the "append file=/cdrom/preseed..." bit) but I can't seem to be able to access /cdrom from the preseed file. The simplest test is a late_command:
d-i preseed/late_command string df > /target/home/df.txt; ls -Rl /cdrom > /target/home/cdrom.txt; ls -Rl /target/media/cdrom > /target/home/target_cdrom.txt[/CODE]
The server install tells me the above command exits with error code -1, and the only file out of those three that contains anything is the df, which looks like this:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
none 205182 180 204992 0% /run
devtmpfs 1020212 8 1020204 0% /dev
/dev/sr0 1408470 1408470 0 100% /cdrom
/dev/mapper/ubuntu-root 18540428 3541660 14068568 20% /target
/dev/sda1 233191 24991 195759 11% /target/boot
/dev/mapper/ubuntu-root 18540428 3541660 14068568 20% /dev/.static/dev
devtmpfs 1020212 8 1020204 0% /target/dev
/dev/sr0 1408470 1408470 0 100% /target/media/cdrom
So obviously both /cdrom and /target/media/cdrom exist. Why can't I read them from the preseed file? Is the ISO actually mounted there as in isolinux/txt.cfg? Is there any other way to add this key without needing to download it like the following?
d-i apt-setup/local0/key string <remote repo key url>
Thank you for your help.
