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SC2Sick
April 16th, 2013, 07:00 PM
I am using the YUMI utility to load up my flash drive with some installers for various versions of Ubuntu (Alternate, Xubuntu, Lubuntu for example).

YUMI doesn't have a parameter for Ubuntu 12.04 Alternate which I wish to use for an LTSP install.. I believe I've figured out how to manually add this to the drive, however based on the behavior that the menus generated by YUMI present I don't see the ability to press F4 for example to choose OEM install or LTSP server install.

I see


menu label ^Run Xubuntu from this USB
kernel /multiboot/xubuntu1204/casper/vmlinuz
append cdrom-detect/try-usb=true noprompt boot=casper floppy.allowed_drive_mask=0 live-media-path=/multiboot/xubuntu1204/casper/ ignore_uuid file=/cdrom/preseed/xubuntu.seed initrd=/multiboot/xubuntu1204/casper/initrd.lz splash --
label live-install
menu label ^Install Xubuntu to a Hard Disk
kernel /multiboot/xubuntu1204/casper/vmlinuz
append cdrom-detect/try-usb=true noprompt boot=casper floppy.allowed_drive_mask=0 live-media-path=/multiboot/xubuntu1204/casper/ ignore_uuid file=/cdrom/preseed/xubuntu.seed only-ubiquity initrd=/multiboot/xubuntu1204/casper/initrd.lz splash --

How would I flag this for example to do an OEM (xubuntu) or LTSP (for alternate) install script instead? I notice the key difference being
only-ubiquity for straight install versus running live. I looked at the root of the ISO file and couldn't deduce anything the way I believe I have done for getting the alternate install manually loaded on it by replacing the file paths

This would also be helpful in changing some things for our PXE server as well because at the moment we can only run the live versions off PXE and not the OEM install script we wish to run for our organization. Assuming I am understanding correctly how this all works......

oldfred
April 16th, 2013, 11:56 PM
I use grub2 to multi-boot ISO directly from flash drives. But never was able to get alternative nor server to boot. The ISO are configured differently.

Grub does not loopmount alternate
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debian-installer/+bug/914926

SC2Sick
April 17th, 2013, 07:02 AM
My main concern is being able to know how to flag as OEM

oldfred
April 17th, 2013, 03:42 PM
I have never done it:

OEM mode so user can add name & password later:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ubuntu_OEM_Installer_Overview

SC2Sick
April 17th, 2013, 06:27 PM
Right, for my purposes I always want to do an OEM install, so it would be very helpful to have that on a USB key, rather than optical media.

SC2Sick
April 19th, 2013, 10:53 PM
:( surprised I can't find this anywhere online or here

QuimaxW
January 11th, 2014, 06:16 AM
I've been working on this, trying to transpose the isolinux.cfg file into my pxelinux.cfg with no luck. So far, it simply boots the system into the live-cd and no installer. Has anyone else had any luck getting this to work?