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AdmiralNotorious
January 17th, 2011, 08:16 PM
Hello.

I am so close to the answer i think. My goal is to fully automate an entire Ubuntu installation off a usb flashdrive from start to finish. So, i did as this

https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/installation-guide/i386/automatic-install.html

guide said and i made a kickstart ks.cfg file that is used to automate an installation, as i'm sure many of u know.

The next step has infinitely confused me. To make the ks.cfg file boot automatically and startup an installation to my specifications.

from this link
http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hoary/main/installer-i386/current/doc/manual/en/apcs01.html

I have found that editing the syslinux.cfg file in the syslinux directory on the usb can be used to load preseed file, which to my understanding serves the same purpose as a kickstart file.

How should i edit syslinux.cfg to achieve my ends? or am i totally off base here?

AdmiralNotorious
January 18th, 2011, 02:26 PM
i know this problems got a lot of parts to it

AdmiralNotorious
January 20th, 2011, 12:37 AM
come on. anyone?