Questions tagged [curtin]
Curtin is a low-level installation tool. It is used as part of Subiquity for partition creation, writing the installation image, boot configuration, and for other in-target tasks. Curtin is also used as part of MAAS.
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ubuntu installer hangs forever at "executing late commands" on autoinstall
I'm trying to install my Ubuntu server 20.04.03 using autoinstall. I don't have any "late-commands", but the installer hangs at "executing late commands".
Installer:
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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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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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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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How to convert curtin storage configuration to cloud-init disk_setup
I am using the Cloud Images for Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04 LTS to provision a template image for further provisioning.
I previously tried using the Live Server Images with autoinstall and had no sucess ...
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How to configure autoinstall for ZFS on root
I tried to autoinstall ubuntu server providing the user-data file as stated in the documentation but specifically for root on ZFS on Virtualbox. I followed the cloud-init documentation to set the ...
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curtin script: set size as remaining space on disk
I am using maas 2.9 on ubuntu 20.04 server os to install ubuntu 20.04 images.
Issue 1: how to create last partition with remaining space?
To create a custom storage configuration, I have added the ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 autoinstall post installation script
I set up Ubuntu 20.04 with auto-install PXE and everything works. Now I want to run my post-install.sh script after installation which does some custom stuff for me like install HP server utility, ...
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Is it possible to install specific package versions used by the installer, before the installer runs?
The current version of Curtin on the 20.04 live installer fails to properly detect my disks, and I thus cannot install Ubuntu 20.04. A newer version of Curtin has fixed this issue (19.3-68-g6cbdc02d-...
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Why does the 20.04 installer think that a plain linux raid is made up of 2 x /dev/sdb2 partitions?
I've been trying to figure out this one for a few evenings now. I downloaded the 20.04 server installer, and tried to install it on a linux raid which I configured in the installer. This consistently ...
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