[ale] Need help with an Ubuntu ks.cfg

[Ted W]

On Jun 20, 2012, at 10:52 AM, Ted W wrote:
> On Jun 20, 2012, at 9:52 AM, Brian MacLeod wrote:
>> On 6/20/12 9:05 AM, Ted W wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Not that this helps, but thank you for making me aware that this layer
>> exists in Ubuntu land.  I was originally going to say "wha???" until I
>> found the KickstartCompatibility page [1].
>> 
>> 
>> That looks like a valid kickstart, and what you appear to be
>> describing is a hang or hidden dialog after initramfs.  If that is the
>> case, what is the call you are making to invoke the kickstart, because
>> that seems like it might be more of the problem than the kickstart itself.
>> 
>> Brian
>> 
>> [1] - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KickstartCompatibility
>> 
>> 
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> 
> 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:


Ok, so I ended up caving and just went with the "official" unattended method of using a preseed file... I don't understand why everyone can't just use kickstart...

Using the preseed file I was able to get everything working without a hitch and I fear that what was hanging me up on the preseed file may also have been my downfall with the kickstart file. Apparently there is a /.disk file on the iso image and using cp does not pull the hidden files over. After copying over the .disk directory everything worked with preseed. I've not tried again with my ks.cfg file yet, however.

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Ted W. < Ted at Techmachine.net >
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