help with package configuration in kickstart

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 04:24:14PM -0400, Rohit Kumar Mehta wrote:
> Hi I have kickstart automatic (noninteractive) installation working in 
> Feisty. Thanks Colin!
> 
> However, I am having some trouble configuring machines the way I want 
> them.  I am wondering what the *best way* to do what I want is.
> 
> Eventually we want to have a kickstarted machine configured with NIS, 
> kerberos, autofs, and kerberized nfs.
> 
> Right now I am just trying to get NIS to install properly.
> 
> The packages section works great.  In my ks.cfg I wrote:
> 
> %packages
> openssh-server
> nis
> 
> And both openssh-server and nis get installed.
> 
> However nis does not get configured properly creating problems. I also 
> have the following lines in my ks.cfg:
> 
> preseed openssh-server  ssh/new_config  boolean true
> preseed openssh-server  ssh/use_old_init_script boolean true
> preseed openssh-server  ssh/encrypted_host_key_but_no_keygen    note
> preseed openssh-server  ssh/disable_cr_auth     boolean false
> preseed nis     nis/domain      string  engr.uconn.edu
> 
> I believe the last line (the one with nis in it), should write 
> "engr.uconn.edu" into /etc/defaultdomain.  Is this correct?

This is my belief. If it doesn't work, it sounds like a bug in nis.

Installing with DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer in the kernel boot parameters
ought to give you a syslog including information I could use to see
what's going wrong. (Don't use a valuable password in this mode.)

> Also is there a way I can avoid installing @ubuntu-desktop?  It would 
> make my testing go a LOT faster!

It should only be installed if it's listed in %packages ...?

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]