Does kickstart work on 20.04 LTS

[Tom H]

On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 12:25 AM Jerry Geis <jerry.geis at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> I tried the below, did not do anything....
>
> I tried isolinux.cfg/txt.cfg
> label LSI
>   menu label ^Install Ubuntu Server 20.04 LSI
>   kernel /casper/vmlinuz
>   append  autoinstall ds=nocloud,s=file:///kickstart/autoinstall_server_ubuntu20.yaml
> initrd=/casper/initrd quiet splash biosdevname=0 net.ifnames=0 ---
>
> and my autoinstall file: (first attempt)
>  more ../kickstart/autoinstall_server_ubuntu20.yaml
> version: 1
> early-commands:
>   - echo a
>   - sleep 1
>   - echo a
> locale: en_US
> refresh-installer:
>   update: no
> debconf-selections: eek
> packages:
>   - package1
>   - package2
> late-commands:
>   - echo a
>   - sleep 1
>   - echo a
> keyboard:
>   layout: en
> identity:
>   realname: ''
>   username: silentm
>   password: ubuntu
>   hostname: VMImage

I've been doing to googling.

[1] has the method to create an ISO with the yaml file.

[2] has an explanation of "ds=...,s=...". It's "file://" not "file:///".

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/subiquity/+bug/1869291/comments/4

[2] https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/topics/datasources/nocloud.html