apt-get in postinstallation in kickstart

tuxico tuxico at gmail.com
Sun Jul 10 07:55:52 CDT 2005


Thanks Colin for your trick with the netboot installer.
Do you got some informations about the Hoary image solution ? (yes I am curious)

On 7/10/05, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 05:37:49PM +0100, tuxico wrote:
> > thanks you for your quick answer !
> > I made this mistake because I readed
> > http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2005-April/006830.html
> > and I thought that only ubuntu-desktop was possible to install in
> > %packages.
> 
> That's package *groups*, but you can use any individual package names
> you like.
> 
> > By the way, do you know how to add others repositories of packages
> > (like universe) during the kickstart installation ? (to install
> > packages like ncftp during the installation, for example)
> 
> The simplest way is to use the images at
> http://people.ubuntu.com/~cjwatson/hoary-installer-update/netboot/,
> which allow you to put the following line in your Kickstart file:
> 
>   preseed --owner base-config apt-setup/universe boolean true
> 
> It's possible with the standard Hoary images, but considerably more
> awkward.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
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> Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]
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