Automatic installation of Ubuntu (parallel to Fedora kickstart)

Dhanasekaran Anbalagan bugcy013 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 30 03:08:02 UTC 2016


Hi Kevin,

Please take a look cobbler project.

http://cobbler.github.io/

Kind regards,
Dhanasekaran.

Did I learn something today? If not, I wasted it.

On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 9:30 PM, Kevin Wilson <wkevils at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks, Hans.
>
> Unfortunately, this is ubuntu server, no X windows, so
> system-config-kickstart cannot run there. I also tried to install the
> ubuntu deskop on that server, but it failed due to broken
> dependencies. So I am quite stuck
> AFAIK, in Fedora there is a way to generate a .ks (kickstart) upon
> installation (or there is such one created automatically). Is there
> anything like it in Ubuntu ?
>
> Regards,
> Kevin
>
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 4:58 PM, Hans Bieshaar <Hans at bieshaar.org> wrote:
> > Hi Kevin
> >
> > The Ubuntu Installation Guide mentions multiple possibilities. It is even
> > possible to use kickstart files, but there are better ways.
> >
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/installation-guide/i386/ch04s06.html
> >
> > I am in a simple single Ubuntu user environment, so after trying a lot of
> > these alternatives, decided that for me a couple of batch-files give a
> lot
> > more flexibility. So I have not used these options for a while.
> >
> > Greetings
> > Hans
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 3:31 PM, Kevin Wilson <wkevils at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >> Is there a solution (parallel to Fedora Kickstart) for automatic
> >> installation
> >> of Ubuntu according to installation you already did on a given machine ?
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Kevin
> >>
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