I have a working preseed file that I cobbled to together manually. Ubuntu 14.04.1 likes this file and will installed in a completely unattended manner. I then took and wrote some C# to write out preseed files based on given parameters. Ubuntu 14.04.1 does NOT like this file. The install always errors with "Syntax Error: unable to determine template type". This happens during the recipe, after the definition of the boot volume.
Here are both files: http://www.filedropper.com/ubuntu-14cfg
I've been banging my head against this for 2 solid days now and do NOT see a difference between the two. Does anyone else see what I'm doing wrong?
diff
on the two files? Almost all lines differ in white-space amounts. Withdiff -uw
I still get some differences that appear to be white-space only despite the-w
option. Additionallyfile
tells me, that those files have carriage return characters at the end of their lines, which many *nix tools don't like.