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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 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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3 votes
1 answer
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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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1 answer
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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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4 votes
1 answer
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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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2 votes
2 answers
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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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2 answers
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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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