<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jun 20, 2012, at 9:52 AM, Brian MacLeod wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 6/20/12 9:05 AM, Ted W wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">I'm trying to automate the installation of my Ubuntu workstation<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">images using kickstart but I seem to be missing something because<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">when I boot off of the ISO I've created it only boots to the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">initramfs prompt and won't go any further. I'm not using PXE boot<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">for this, I simply wanted to automate the process of answering the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">install questions automagically and using a local mirror for<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">packages instead of having to update manually after installation<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">completes. Any help figuring out where I've gone wrong would be<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">greatly appreciated. This is my first kickstart file under Ubuntu.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">My ks.cfg file is below:<br></blockquote><br><br>Not that this helps, but thank you for making me aware that this layer<br>exists in Ubuntu land. I was originally going to say "wha???" until I<br>found the KickstartCompatibility page [1].<br><br><br>That looks like a valid kickstart, and what you appear to be<br>describing is a hang or hidden dialog after initramfs. If that is the<br>case, what is the call you are making to invoke the kickstart, because<br>that seems like it might be more of the problem than the kickstart itself.<br><br>Brian<br><br>[1] - <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KickstartCompatibility">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KickstartCompatibility</a><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Ale mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org">Ale@ale.org</a><br>http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale<br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br>http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo<br></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div>By "invoke kickstart" I presume you mean how I'm calling the ks.cfg file? What I've done is changed the "append" line in /isolinux/txt.cfg to the following:<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>append ks=cdrom:/ks.cfg vga=normal initrd=/casper/initrd.lz install --</div><div><br></div><div>However, after examining that line again compared to the other lines I've tried the following as well</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>append ks=/cdrom/ks.cfg vga=normal initrd=/casper/initrd.lz install --</div><div><br></div><div>as well as</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>append ks=/ks.cfg vga=normal initrd=/casper/initrd.lz install --</div><div><br></div><div>None of these seem to help. I've also removed the "vga=normal" segment because it was throwing an error right before the initramfs prompt would come up.<br><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div>-- <br>Ted W. < <a href="mailto:Ted@Techmachine.net">Ted@Techmachine.net</a> ><br>Registered GNU/Linux user #413569</div><div><br></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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