hmyousry
December 6th, 2011, 07:24 AM
Hi,
This is the first time for me here in the forum, acctually i am trying to create an automatically installed CD i edited the preceed file /cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed and started installation but it becomes interactive !!!!!
according to the boot messages the file is read, i even tried to make a syntax error in the file to make sure that this is the file being read, the error showed during booting.
but still the installation is interactive
as i noticed the boot options are loaded from /cdrom/isolinux/txt.cfg
here is its content:
default live-install
label live
menu label ^Try Ubuntu without installing
kernel /casper/vmlinuz
append file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash --
label live-install
menu label ^Install Ubuntu
kernel /casper/vmlinuz
append file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity initrd=/casper/initrd.lz --
label check
menu label ^Check disc for defects
kernel /casper/vmlinuz
append boot=casper integrity-check initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash --
label memtest
menu label Test ^memory
kernel /install/mt86plus
label hd
menu label ^Boot from first hard disk
localboot 0x80
and here is the ubuntu.seed file
# Enable extras.ubuntu.com.
#d-i apt-setup/extras boolean true------------
# Install the Ubuntu desktop.
#tasksel tasksel/first multiselect ubuntu-desktop-------------
# On live DVDs, don't spend huge amounts of time removing substantial
# application packages pulled in by language packs. Given that we clearly
# have the space to include them on the DVD, they're useful and we might as
# well keep them installed.
#ubiquity ubiquity/keep-installed string icedtea6-plugin openoffice.org------------
# Preseeding only locale sets language, country and locale.
d-i debian-installer/locale string en_US
# The values can also be preseeded individually for greater flexibility.
d-i debian-installer/language string en
d-i debian-installer/country string NL
d-i debian-installer/locale string en_GB.UTF-8
# Optionally specify additional locales to be generated.
d-i localechooser/supported-locales en_US.UTF-8, nl_NL.UTF-8
# Keyboard selection.
# Disable automatic (interactive) keymap detection.
d-i console-setup/ask_detect boolean false
d-i console-setup/layoutcode string us
# netcfg will choose an interface that has link if possible. This makes it
# skip displaying a list if there is more than one interface.
d-i netcfg/choose_interface select auto
# If you have a slow dhcp server and the installer times out waiting for
# it, this might be useful.
#d-i netcfg/dhcp_timeout string 60
# If you want the preconfiguration file to work on systems both with and
# without a dhcp server, uncomment these lines and the static network
# configuration below.
d-i netcfg/dhcp_failed note
d-i netcfg/dhcp_options select Configure network manually
# Static network configuration.
d-i netcfg/get_nameservers string 192.168.1.1
d-i netcfg/get_ipaddress string 192.168.1.42
d-i netcfg/get_netmask string 255.255.255.0
d-i netcfg/get_gateway string 192.168.1.1
d-i netcfg/confirm_static boolean true
# Any hostname and domain names assigned from dhcp take precedence over
# values set here. However, setting the values still prevents the questions
# from being shown, even if values come from dhcp.
d-i netcfg/get_hostname string myhost
d-i netcfg/get_domain string mydomain
# Disable that annoying WEP key dialog.
d-i netcfg/wireless_wep string
# The wacky dhcp hostname that some ISPs use as a password of sorts.
#d-i netcfg/dhcp_hostname string radish
# If non-free firmware is needed for the network or other hardware, you can
# configure the installer to always try to load it, without prompting. Or
# change to false to disable asking.
#d-i hw-detect/load_firmware boolean true
# Setting the proxy
#d-i mirror/http/proxy string http://192.168.1.1:3142
### Clock and time zone setup
# Controls whether or not the hardware clock is set to UTC.
d-i clock-setup/utc boolean true
# You may set this to any valid setting for $TZ; see the contents of
# /usr/share/zoneinfo/ for valid values.
d-i time/zone string Africa/Cairo
# Controls whether to use NTP to set the clock during the install
d-i clock-setup/ntp boolean false
# NTP server to use. The default is almost always fine here.
#d-i clock-setup/ntp-server string ntp.example.com
# use the first hard drive
d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/sda
# The presently available methods are:
# - regular: use the usual partition types for your architecture
# - lvm: use LVM to partition the disk
# - crypto: use LVM within an encrypted partition
d-i partman-auto/method string regular
# You can choose one of the three predefined partitioning recipes:
# - atomic: all files in one partition
# - home: separate /home partition
# - multi: separate /home, /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions
d-i partman-auto/choose_recipe select home
# This makes partman automatically partition without confirmation, provided
# that you told it what to do using one of the methods above.
d-i partman-partitioning/confirm_write_new_label boolean true
d-i partman/choose_partition select finish
d-i partman/confirm boolean true
d-i partman/confirm_nooverwrite boolean true
# To create a normal user account.
d-i passwd/user-fullname string Ubuntu User
d-i passwd/username string ubuntu
# Normal user's password, either in clear text
# password set to ubuntu
d-i passwd/user-password password koki
d-i passwd/user-password-again password koki
# or encrypted using an MD5 hash.
#d-i passwd/user-password-crypted password [MD5 hash]
# The installer will warn about weak passwords. If you are sure you know
# what you're doing and want to override it, uncomment this.
d-i user-setup/allow-password-weak boolean true
# Set to true if you want to encrypt the first user's home directory.
d-i user-setup/encrypt-home boolean false
# taskselect
tasksel tasksel/first multiselect ubuntu-desktop
# no upgrade for testing purpose
# d-i pkgsel/upgrade select none
d-i pkgsel/update-policy select safe-upgrade
# taskselect
tasksel tasksel/first multiselect ubuntu-desktop
# no upgrade for testing purpose
# d-i pkgsel/upgrade select none
d-i pkgsel/update-policy select safe-upgrade
# Individual additional packages to install
#d-i pkgsel/include string openssh-server cfengine2 mplayer \
#nautilus-dropbox gimp klavaro ia32-libs lib32asound2 lib32gcc1 lib32stdc++6 libc6-i386 skype auth-client-config winbind \
#libpam-mount smbfs nss-updatedb libnss-db libpam-ccreds
d-i pkgsel/include string openssh-server cfengine2 smbfs auth-client-config \
winbind libpam-mount skype mplayer \
fbreader gimp klavaro p7zip-full gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg \
linphone extcalc postr gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3 gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly \
vlc openvpn nss-updatedb libnss-db libpam-ccreds \
network-manager-openvpn network-manager-openvpn-gnome abiword\
bcmwl-kernel-source realtek-rts-pstor-pcie-media-card-reader-dkms cheese
#ntp extcalc
# Language pack selection
d-i pkgsel/language-packs multiselect en
# cfengine2 mplayer klavaro gimp fbreader p7zip-full ntp
popularity-contest popularity-contest/participate boolean false
# This is fairly safe to set, it makes grub install automatically to the MBR
# if no other operating system is detected on the machine.
d-i grub-installer/only_debian boolean true
# This will power off the machine instead of just halting it.
# d-i debian-installer/exit/poweroff boolean true
This is the first time for me here in the forum, acctually i am trying to create an automatically installed CD i edited the preceed file /cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed and started installation but it becomes interactive !!!!!
according to the boot messages the file is read, i even tried to make a syntax error in the file to make sure that this is the file being read, the error showed during booting.
but still the installation is interactive
as i noticed the boot options are loaded from /cdrom/isolinux/txt.cfg
here is its content:
default live-install
label live
menu label ^Try Ubuntu without installing
kernel /casper/vmlinuz
append file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash --
label live-install
menu label ^Install Ubuntu
kernel /casper/vmlinuz
append file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity initrd=/casper/initrd.lz --
label check
menu label ^Check disc for defects
kernel /casper/vmlinuz
append boot=casper integrity-check initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash --
label memtest
menu label Test ^memory
kernel /install/mt86plus
label hd
menu label ^Boot from first hard disk
localboot 0x80
and here is the ubuntu.seed file
# Enable extras.ubuntu.com.
#d-i apt-setup/extras boolean true------------
# Install the Ubuntu desktop.
#tasksel tasksel/first multiselect ubuntu-desktop-------------
# On live DVDs, don't spend huge amounts of time removing substantial
# application packages pulled in by language packs. Given that we clearly
# have the space to include them on the DVD, they're useful and we might as
# well keep them installed.
#ubiquity ubiquity/keep-installed string icedtea6-plugin openoffice.org------------
# Preseeding only locale sets language, country and locale.
d-i debian-installer/locale string en_US
# The values can also be preseeded individually for greater flexibility.
d-i debian-installer/language string en
d-i debian-installer/country string NL
d-i debian-installer/locale string en_GB.UTF-8
# Optionally specify additional locales to be generated.
d-i localechooser/supported-locales en_US.UTF-8, nl_NL.UTF-8
# Keyboard selection.
# Disable automatic (interactive) keymap detection.
d-i console-setup/ask_detect boolean false
d-i console-setup/layoutcode string us
# netcfg will choose an interface that has link if possible. This makes it
# skip displaying a list if there is more than one interface.
d-i netcfg/choose_interface select auto
# If you have a slow dhcp server and the installer times out waiting for
# it, this might be useful.
#d-i netcfg/dhcp_timeout string 60
# If you want the preconfiguration file to work on systems both with and
# without a dhcp server, uncomment these lines and the static network
# configuration below.
d-i netcfg/dhcp_failed note
d-i netcfg/dhcp_options select Configure network manually
# Static network configuration.
d-i netcfg/get_nameservers string 192.168.1.1
d-i netcfg/get_ipaddress string 192.168.1.42
d-i netcfg/get_netmask string 255.255.255.0
d-i netcfg/get_gateway string 192.168.1.1
d-i netcfg/confirm_static boolean true
# Any hostname and domain names assigned from dhcp take precedence over
# values set here. However, setting the values still prevents the questions
# from being shown, even if values come from dhcp.
d-i netcfg/get_hostname string myhost
d-i netcfg/get_domain string mydomain
# Disable that annoying WEP key dialog.
d-i netcfg/wireless_wep string
# The wacky dhcp hostname that some ISPs use as a password of sorts.
#d-i netcfg/dhcp_hostname string radish
# If non-free firmware is needed for the network or other hardware, you can
# configure the installer to always try to load it, without prompting. Or
# change to false to disable asking.
#d-i hw-detect/load_firmware boolean true
# Setting the proxy
#d-i mirror/http/proxy string http://192.168.1.1:3142
### Clock and time zone setup
# Controls whether or not the hardware clock is set to UTC.
d-i clock-setup/utc boolean true
# You may set this to any valid setting for $TZ; see the contents of
# /usr/share/zoneinfo/ for valid values.
d-i time/zone string Africa/Cairo
# Controls whether to use NTP to set the clock during the install
d-i clock-setup/ntp boolean false
# NTP server to use. The default is almost always fine here.
#d-i clock-setup/ntp-server string ntp.example.com
# use the first hard drive
d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/sda
# The presently available methods are:
# - regular: use the usual partition types for your architecture
# - lvm: use LVM to partition the disk
# - crypto: use LVM within an encrypted partition
d-i partman-auto/method string regular
# You can choose one of the three predefined partitioning recipes:
# - atomic: all files in one partition
# - home: separate /home partition
# - multi: separate /home, /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions
d-i partman-auto/choose_recipe select home
# This makes partman automatically partition without confirmation, provided
# that you told it what to do using one of the methods above.
d-i partman-partitioning/confirm_write_new_label boolean true
d-i partman/choose_partition select finish
d-i partman/confirm boolean true
d-i partman/confirm_nooverwrite boolean true
# To create a normal user account.
d-i passwd/user-fullname string Ubuntu User
d-i passwd/username string ubuntu
# Normal user's password, either in clear text
# password set to ubuntu
d-i passwd/user-password password koki
d-i passwd/user-password-again password koki
# or encrypted using an MD5 hash.
#d-i passwd/user-password-crypted password [MD5 hash]
# The installer will warn about weak passwords. If you are sure you know
# what you're doing and want to override it, uncomment this.
d-i user-setup/allow-password-weak boolean true
# Set to true if you want to encrypt the first user's home directory.
d-i user-setup/encrypt-home boolean false
# taskselect
tasksel tasksel/first multiselect ubuntu-desktop
# no upgrade for testing purpose
# d-i pkgsel/upgrade select none
d-i pkgsel/update-policy select safe-upgrade
# taskselect
tasksel tasksel/first multiselect ubuntu-desktop
# no upgrade for testing purpose
# d-i pkgsel/upgrade select none
d-i pkgsel/update-policy select safe-upgrade
# Individual additional packages to install
#d-i pkgsel/include string openssh-server cfengine2 mplayer \
#nautilus-dropbox gimp klavaro ia32-libs lib32asound2 lib32gcc1 lib32stdc++6 libc6-i386 skype auth-client-config winbind \
#libpam-mount smbfs nss-updatedb libnss-db libpam-ccreds
d-i pkgsel/include string openssh-server cfengine2 smbfs auth-client-config \
winbind libpam-mount skype mplayer \
fbreader gimp klavaro p7zip-full gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg \
linphone extcalc postr gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3 gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly \
vlc openvpn nss-updatedb libnss-db libpam-ccreds \
network-manager-openvpn network-manager-openvpn-gnome abiword\
bcmwl-kernel-source realtek-rts-pstor-pcie-media-card-reader-dkms cheese
#ntp extcalc
# Language pack selection
d-i pkgsel/language-packs multiselect en
# cfengine2 mplayer klavaro gimp fbreader p7zip-full ntp
popularity-contest popularity-contest/participate boolean false
# This is fairly safe to set, it makes grub install automatically to the MBR
# if no other operating system is detected on the machine.
d-i grub-installer/only_debian boolean true
# This will power off the machine instead of just halting it.
# d-i debian-installer/exit/poweroff boolean true