Questions tagged [autoinstall]
For questions about the automated installation mode (autoinstall for short) of Ubuntu Server 20.04 and later. Do not use this tag for questions about the autoinstall option of the ubuntu-drivers command.
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Ubuntu autoinstall. Answer the question while partitioning
I need to make 2 empty partitions while autoinstalling Ubuntu.
I have configured it in preseed. But while installing I see the window called:
"Go back to the menu?"
With a question:
"No ...
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Ubuntu autoinstall with Encryption not working
I'm trying to install Ubuntu server 22.04 with auto-install mostly following this article. I can successfully get the cloud-init and use my user-data for the installation but I can't seem to get the ...
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The difference in network configuration files between USB install and PXE autoinstall
when i use pxe with autoinstall install ubuntu server 22.04 or 23.04,the network configuration automatically generated like this
# This is the network config written by 'subiquity'
network:
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how to enable root user by default in autoinstall user data
in my product, i need to enable root user by default in autoinstall user-data file
Expectation: root user login by default post installation
i followed the below,
version: 1
user-data:
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How to install packages offline with Ubuntu 22.04 Server Autoinstall
I am making a custom ISO w/ autoinstall to automatically install Ubuntu Server onto our machines. We of course need to install some apt packages as part of the customization. The problem is, this ...
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Ubuntu autoinstall, cant get past welcome screen
cant get it past the welcome screen using auto,this is the welcome screen that asks for keyboard typing, timezome, wifi, privacy, user creation.. if i reboot at this screen without entering anything ...
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Subiquity - Dual Boot Storage Setup
Is it possible to install Ubuntu 22 via Subiquity alongside a Windows install on 1 disk? And if so, how is the user-data file configured? In pre-seed, I could use the following:
d-i partman-auto/...
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How to Use Encrypted password in autoinstall.yml - late command
Hi There is a requirement, I have kept a password protected archive file in the filesystem of an ISO by using Squashfs tool. I want to untar it at time of ISO installation.
Is there a way to provide ...
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I'm trying to get the autoinstall working for Ubuntu server 22.04 but the installer doesn't seem to pick up the instructions
I'm trying to get the most basic Ubuntu Server headless installation scenario working. I trimmed my user-data yaml file down to the bare minimum.
#cloud-config
version: 1
identity:
hostname: ...
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Ubuntu ISO with Autoinstall over chroot
I'm tasked with migrating 200 physical CentOS 7 servers to a custom Ubuntu 22.04 ISO. This custom ISO comes pre-configured with Autoinstall and seamlessly installs on any server or VM.
However, I'm ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 Autoinstall how to disable security Updates
I am setting up clients every now and then using pxe -> autoinstall
but after running the setup it takes very long to install the latest security updates.
I want them to install later not while the ...
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trouble using system-uuid for specific autoinstall config
I'm encountering difficulties fetching a specific #cloud-config file based on the SMBIOS UUID during the installation of Ubuntu 22.04 virtual machines using autoinstall. I have a general #cloud-config ...
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Autoinstall Ubuntu Server 22.04: Block probing did not discover any disks big enough to support guided storage configuration
Context
After running the the below bash script to auto-install an Ubuntu server 22.04 on Qemu using virt-install, I get the error:
Block probing did not discover any disks big enough to support ...
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Adding FIPS at end of autoinstall, how to do this correctly
We have a landscape server here from which we obtain FIPS code and updates. I want to add all of this during the autoinstall, in the late-commands section. But, I seem to be triggering something as ...
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Autoinstall storage: not working, Ubuntu does its own thing 20.04
I'm working with Ubuntu 20.40, where I'm creating an ISO with the user-data/meta-data on the image, then booting a VMware VM off it. I watch the output, it seems to create the logical volumes and ...
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how to customized a ubuntu server 22.04 image and set up as a auto answer installtion image
i am trying to make an image for my machines. There are too many machines that i have to install windows server and ubuntu server on them. So i need to customized a image(install some software and ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 autoinstall storage layout examples
When using autoinstall's LVM storage layout, how do I create custom LVM partitions using sizing-policy as with key scaled and value set to Between 10-20 GiB
storage:
layout:
name: lvm
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Storage Layouts - custom partitions with interactive selection for easy of update using autoinstall for ubuntu 22.04
We are looking to get below preseed file converted into autoinstall.
PRESEED Used for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
d-i partman-auto/method string lvm
d-i partman-lvm/device_remove_lvm boolean true
d-i partman-...
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Autoinstall storage config- storage size limits
We are using below storage configuration for autoinstall
storage:
config:
#Select Disk
- {ptable: gpt, match: {}, wipe: superblock-recursive,
preserve: false, name: '', grub_device: true, type: disk, ...
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Documentation for meta-data and vendor-data
We could not find any document related to meta-data and vendor-data used in autoinstall, when to use one or the other.
Please share any relevant documentation related to autoinstall's meta-data and ...
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Installing packages via autoinstall vs user-data
I've read the entire autoinstall documentation and the entire cloud-init documentation, but I still don't understand the apparent overlap/redundancy between the ability to install packages in ...
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Ubuntu Jammy Auto Install
I am using an automated install for Ubuntu Jammy. I want to stop the prompt for installing updates and other software.
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Ubuntu autoinstall, how to actually get it to work?
I am having major trouble building a working autoinstall process. This is for 20.04.2.0; first, testing it with a VMware ESXI host.
What I thought I could do:
Boot the VM off the ISO and,
Specify ...
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Autoinstall via ISO boot kernel, correct command args
I'm new to the autoinstall process, where I am finding documentation difficult to follow; however, most of the docs refer to using a virtual machine (qemu) which we are not. On the Autoinstall ...
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How can I use self-signed HTTPS for my Ubuntu 20.04 autoinstall files?
I am trying to load an autoinstall config into an Ubuntu installation. I have my autoinstall configs hosted on two servers, one running https with company certs and one running http.
When the ...
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Autoinstall xubuntu using packer and vsphere
I've been trying to create xubuntu template on vmware using packer and vsphere.
I run into problem, because whatever I do in boot command i get into xubuntu live session-"xubuntu try mode"
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Apt sources missing in autoinstall environment (22.04.2)
I am setting up a network autoinstall with the 22.04.2 image. With a packages key, the package installation step fails. (I thought it was working last week.) When I look into the target environment,...
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Full disk encryption with 'fire and forget' autoinstall in 20.04+?
I have a small problem. I'm trying to do a 'fire-and-forget' install of Ubuntu 20.04 with full disk encryption. And I keep getting prompted for the disk password during the process. (I believe this is ...
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Autoinstall curtin FAIL: removing previous storage devices with RAID1
I create an ISO with autoinstall that needs to be generic. It should work on VMs, physical machines with legacy bios, EFI bios, with and without RAID.
In my autoinstall.yml, I don't have anything ...
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Autoinstall Ubuntu 22.04 Desktop using Server source?
I'm trying to create an auto install iso, and install it in Proxmox.
After spent long hours to search how to auto install a Desktop version, I finally abandoned.... (if anybody has an idea I'm waiting ...
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How to add shell script and python scripts in ubuntu auto-install early-commands section
I have a requirement to add multiple shell scripts and python scripts in the ubuntu autoinstall early-command section.
All documents tell about only the shell commands passing procedure inside early-...
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Autoinstall from ISO File
Can someone suggest the steps or a guide to use autoinstall function starting 22.04 Server ISO?
My goal is use an ISO to install Ubuntu Server 22.04, and provide info for automating install (first ...
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Autoinstaller: keep the /home if available, (and automatically add users)
What I would like to do is to make an autoinstaller that only installs the OS but would try to keep, and attach, an existing home directory - and automatically make the user(s) again.
But looking ...
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Autoinstall local repository
I have my own ISO based on Ubuntu 22.04 that I generated myself. Here is my Autoinstall -
#cloud-config
autoinstall:
version: 1
identity:
hostname: foo-ubuntu
password: "ToReplace&...
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Ubuntu 22.04 autoinstall pxe not getting user-data
testing on VirtualBox an automated install of ubuntu desktop, i have a router, dhcp, tftp, http server.
This is my pxelinux.cfg/default:
UI menu.c32
LABEL Ubuntu
MENU LABEL Ubuntu
KERNEL ubuntu/...
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Ubuntu 22.04 Desktop LTS unattended installation
I am trying to search around for the Ubuntu 22.04 Desktop autoinstall (like the Windows ISO image. We could deploy on the Windows ISO image, and make it install automatically with our customization ...
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Ubuntu autoinstall disable prompt during iso installation
I'm generating my own iso using autoinstall, here is the configuration:
#cloud-config
autoinstall:
version: 1
identity:
hostname: foo-ubuntu
password: "qqqaaaqqqaaa"
username:...
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autoinstall ubuntu 22.04 LTS autoinstall does not work in uefi mode
I'm working on autoinstall ubuntu 22 for my company (using VMWare and PXE). It works fine with legacy configs, but not with UEFI.
I have continued the install process to the end and then get the ...
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Autoinstall Lubuntu
I successfully was able to autoinstall Ubuntu Server 22.04 by calling following GRUB commands. <my-server> provides a user-data config file where users will be created etc.
linux /casper/vmlinuz ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 Autoinstall method
Does anybody figured out the right way of providing autoinstall data with custom iso file via grub?
Clearly Ubuntu 22.04 doesn't provide the nice way of definition of boot commands via casper (sort of ...
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Server Autoinstall and Partitions
I'm learning about the cloud-config-ish autoinstall tool subiquity and I keep running into a problem where the autoinstall works, but it won't follow my configuration for the storage: section.
Here's ...
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Autoinstall build of Ubuntu Server 20.04, does not autoinstall
I'm trying to build a Ubuntu 20.04 server with autoinstall. But it looks like it isn't picking up the setup file.
I'm using packer, however I also tried this manually and got the same result:
Setup:
/...
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Ubuntu offline autoinstall ISO
I am migrating an offline autoinstall ISO from Ubuntu 16.04 to 20.04.
Previously I used the debian-installer preseed file. To disable online mirrors and force an offline install I could use the ...
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Ubuntu Autoinstall - UEFI
We want to use the new ubuntu autoinstall method Autoinstall. There are some problems getting UEFI boot to work. I've installed Ubuntu Server 20.04 with the normal installer and EFI method and then ...
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Problems with autoinstall
I'm trying out the new autoinstall method that supersedes the classical debian installer.
I've built the following configs:
user-data:
#cloud-config
autoinstall:
version: 1
identity:
hostname: ...
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ubuntu autoinstall interface names
It seems not possible on Ubuntu autoinstallations (14.04.3 and 15.04) to configure the right network interface via preseed.
Ubuntu sometimes uses eth0, and sometimes interfaces like p2p1, or p1p3.
I ...
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