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 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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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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Add custom bash script to ubuntu auto-install ISO
I'm working on an Ubuntu auto-install ISO. I'm close to finishing it, and my last task is to add a custom bash script that will be run in late-commands stage.
I tried to search for someone who's ...
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Using Match: Name: wildcard with "wifis", autoinstall.yaml, netplan
Is there any way to get similar functionality for WiFi interfaces as you can for hard wired ethernet modules via match: name: wildcard? I am trying to setup an automated install that will connect to a ...
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Autoinstall Ubuntu 22.04 in Air Gapped network
I’m wondering if anyone can point me in some direction. In our environment, we support a high number of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS desktops all in an air-gapped network. We have a mirror of the Ubuntu ...
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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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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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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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Minimal autoinstall.yaml to install authorized keys, getting subiquity/Error/load_autoinstall_data
I am trying to create the minimal autoinstall.yaml that will let me install SSH authorized keys.
This is my autoinstall.yaml:
#cloud-config
autoinstall:
version: 1
locale: en_US
identity:
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Ubuntu 24.04 PXE boot + autoinstall failing to complete install
I created an iso using cubic with Ubuntu 24.04 server image. No modifications are done to the filesystem, it's all vanilla. I started with a working 22.04 autoinstall script and copied it to 24.04 ...
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Windows 11 Fails to Boot After Installing Ubuntu Using autoinstall.yaml
Hello Stack Overflow Community,
I'm encountering a recurring problem where Windows 11 becomes unbootable after I install Ubuntu alongside it using a custom autoinstall.yaml file. Despite careful ...
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Schema Validation Error on Ubuntu 22.04.4 live server Autoinstall
I've been attempting an automatic installation of Ubuntu 22.04 using the autoinstall.yaml file, which worked fine in Ubuntu 20.04. However, I'm encountering schema validation errors specifically ...
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How to download and place a package (and dependencies) in a local directory as it is in the repo?
I am trying to write a script that prepare an offline installable custom ISO. The customized ISO should have include some other packages which do not come with the official Ubuntu server ISO. (like ...
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issue in autoinstall Ubuntu server 22.04 using raid1 on m2
I tried to install Ubuntu server 22.04 (even with the latest daily version 24.04) using the autoinstall process, to get a bootable raid 1 configuration, using two 2TB m2 disks.
The process keeps ...
