Ubuntu automated installs

[Jimmy Stewpot]

Please find attached a screen shot of the ubuntu installer issue I am 
trying to bypass using the preseeding

Jimmy Stewpot wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Jimmy Stewpot wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am attempting to get the 7.10 to install using the kickstart method 
>> and have some questions which I am hoping to get answers to.
>>
>> - When I put in packages I get what appears to be the full 
>> ubuntu-desktop install. Is there any way to get "the server" install 
>> with no desktop environment using kickstart?
>>
> 
> I have included the skipx section in the kickstart configuration file. 
> It still makes no difference to the end installed product.
> 
>> I have also attempted to to use the normal installer with a preseed 
>> file, I however get problems where It goes through a keyboard "press one 
>> of these keys" style menu system no matter what options I try and 
>> specify in the preseed. I have been unable to fully automate it.
>>
> 
> I have managed to tweak the preseed configuration file so the install is 
> almost entirely automated. I am now however having similar problems to 
> the ones I listed above for kickstart. Here is my preseed configuration.
> 
> 
> # Ubuntu archive mirror hostname:
> d-i     mirror/country  string  GB
> d-i     mirror/http/countries   select  GB
> d-i     mirror/protocol select  http
> d-i     mirror/http/hostname    string  gb.archive.ubuntu.com
> d-i     mirror/http/directory   string  /ubuntu/
> d-i     mirror/suite    select  gutsy
> d-i     mirror/codename string  gutsy
> # Ubuntu archive mirror:
> d-i     mirror/http/mirror      select  gb.archive.ubuntu.com
> apt-mirror-setup        apt-setup/non-free      boolean false
> apt-mirror-setup        apt-setup/use_mirror    boolean true
> apt-mirror-setup        apt-setup/restricted    boolean true
> apt-mirror-setup        apt-setup/universe      boolean true
> apt-mirror-setup        apt-setup/multiverse    boolean true
> apt-mirror-setup        apt-setup/contrib       boolean false
> apt-mirror-setup        apt-setup/backports     boolean true
> 
> # Disk Setup
> d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/sda
> d-i partman-auto/method string regular
> partman-auto    partman-auto/init_automatically_partition       select 
> Guided - use entire disk
> partman-auto    partman-auto/automatically_partition    select
> d-i partman-auto/purge_lvm_from_device boolean true
> d-i partman/confirm_write_new_label boolean true
> d-i  partman/choose_partition select Finish partitioning and write 
> changes to disk
> d-i partman/confirm boolean true
> 
> 
> # Network Configuraiton
> d-i netcfg/choose_interface select auto
> d-i netcfg/get_hostname string unassigned-hostname
> d-i netcfg/get_domain string unassigned-domain
> # Disable that annoying WEP key dialog.
> d-i netcfg/wireless_wep string
> 
> d-i console-keymaps-at/keymap select uk
> d-i clock-setup/utc boolean true
> d-i time/zone string Europe/London
> d-i console-tools/archs select uk
> 
> d-i passwd/root-login boolean true
> d-i passwd/root-password-crypted password XXXX
> d-i passwd/make-user boolean false
> 
> popularity-contest popularity-contest/participate boolean false
> d-i pkgsel/include screen scsiadd scsitools setserial slocate 
> smartmontools snmpd sudo sysstat tcpdump tcpslice tmpreaper unzip vim 
> xinetd zip perl rsync openssh-server ntpdate ntp-server openssh-client 
> lsb-base lsb-release ethtool libs
> tdc++5-3.3-dev debconf-utils
> 
> 
> 
> It seems even with this configuration file I will still get all of the x 
> garbage I do not want installed. All I want to do is install a server, 
> no x, gnome, firefox etc. Can anyone give me assistance with that?
> 
>> Any advice would be great.
>>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> Regards,
>>
>> James
>>
> 
> Further to the other issues above, The above preseed file will always 
> end up with a menu asking me to press certain keys, I am assuming that 
> its trying to work out what the keymap is. I specify it in the preseed 
> and on the appended kernel line. In each case I have no success with the 
> completely automated install.
> 
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