Ubuntu 20.04 autoinstall

[Jerry Geis]

On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 7:17 AM Josef Wolf <jw at raven.inka.de> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 08, 2023 at 06:56:23AM -0500, Jerry Geis wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 6:47 AM Josef Wolf <jw at raven.inka.de> wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, Nov 03, 2023 at 07:04:30PM -0400, Jerry Geis wrote:
> > > > Is there a way to tell autoinstall or the linux kernel command line
> at
> > > boot to NOT use wireless at all ?  Hopefully not load any modules then
> for
> > > firmware etc.
> > > > trying to reduce the install
> > >
> > > With autoinstall, you would supply your own cloud-init file anyway,
> > > wouldn't you?
> > >
> > > There, you can simply provide your netplan config as you like. Just
> omit
> > > the
> > > "wifis" section in the netplan config. Something like:
> > >
> > >
> > > #cloud-config
> > > autoinstall:
> > >   version: 1
> > >   #  interactive-sections:  # Install groups listed here will wait for
> > > user input
> > >   #    - storage
> > >   #    - network
> > >   #    - identity
> > >   network:
> > >     version: 2
> > >     ethernets:
> > >       eth0:
> > >         optional: true
> > >         dhcp4: true
> > >         dhcp4-overrides:
> > >           send-hostname: false
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Josef Wolf
> > > jw at raven.inka.de
> > >
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> >
> > That is what I am going now.  No w* in the ethernets section - just e*
> >
> >    network:
> >     network:
>
> This double "network" stanza looks somewhat suspicious to me. It is placing
> the netplan spec one level too deep, making netplan to fail
>
> From my experience with subiquity/curtin, I'd expect the install to fail
> without telling you what happened and why that happened.
>
> >       version: 2
> >       ethernets:
> >         eth0:
> >           dhcp4: yes
> >           dhcp-identifier: mac
> >         edns0:
> >           dhcp4: yes
> >           dhcp6: no
> >           dhcp-identifier: mac
> >         eno1:
> >           dhcp4: yes
> >           dhcp6: no
> >           dhcp-identifier: mac
> >         eno2:
> >           dhcp4: yes
> >           dhcp6: no
> >           dhcp-identifier: mac
> >         eno3:
> >           dhcp4: yes
> >           dhcp6: no
> >           dhcp-identifier: mac
> >         ens1:
> >           dhcp4: yes
> >           dhcp6: no
> >           dhcp-identifier: mac
> >         ens2:
> >           dhcp4: yes
> >           dhcp6: no
> >           dhcp-identifier: mac
> >         ens3:
> >           dhcp4: yes
> >           dhcp6: no
> >           dhcp-identifier: mac
> >         ens33:
> >           dhcp4: yes
> >           dhcp6: no
> >           dhcp-identifier: mac
> >         ens34:
> >           dhcp4: yes
> >           dhcp6: no
> >           dhcp-identifier: mac
> >         enp1s0:
> >           dhcp4: yes
> >           dhcp6: no
> >           dhcp-identifier: mac
> >         enp2s0:
> >           dhcp4: yes
> >           dhcp6: no
> >           dhcp-identifier: mac
> >         enp3s0:
> >           dhcp4: yes
> >           dhcp6: no
> >           dhcp-identifier: mac
> >         enp4s11:
> >           dhcp4: yes
> >           dhcp6: no
> >           dhcp-identifier: mac
> >         eno8303:
> >           dhcp4: yes
> >           dhcp6: no
> >           dhcp-identifier: mac
> >         eno8304:
> >           dhcp4: yes
> >           dhcp6: no
> >           dhcp-identifier: mac
> >
> >
> > Jerry
>
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> --
> Josef Wolf
>





Hi Josef


>From the documentation:

Note that thanks to a bug, the version of Subiquity released with 20.04 GA
forces you to write this with an extra network: key like so:

network:
  network:
    version: 2
    ethernets:
      enp0s31f6:

https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/install/autoinstall-reference

jerry





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