tylerecouture
May 28th, 2016, 10:34 PM
I am trying to setup my High School classroom as a Linux lab.
I have a working PXE boot, and can successfully install the 16.04 Desktop via PXE and NFS.
Now I'm trying to automate the install, and I can't get past the installation's "Welcome" screen that asks for my language, although I can get that screen to automatically pop-up (instead of having to double click the install icon)
I've read through: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbiquityAutomation and https://help.ubuntu.com/16.04/installation-guide/amd64/apbs01.html
This is my pxe boot command:
LABEL Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit -- PRESEED
KERNEL Ubuntu/16.04/amd64/vmlinuz.efi
APPEND automatic-ubiquity file=/srv/install/ubuntu/16.04/amd64/preseed/custom.seed boot=boot=casper netboot=nfs nfsroot=myip:/srv/install/ubuntu/16.04/amd64 initrd=Ubuntu/16.04/am64/initrd.lz
And here is the top of custom.seed
ubiquity languagechooser/language-name select English
ubiquity localechooser/supported-locales multiselect en_US.UTF8
d-i debian-installer/locale string en_GB.utf8
But these does seem to be enough to get past the installer's first question.
How can I get past the first Welcome/language screen?
I understand it is possible to do this with the netboot image rather than the live cd, but I would like to know why I can't get this to work, because it seems like it should!
I have a working PXE boot, and can successfully install the 16.04 Desktop via PXE and NFS.
Now I'm trying to automate the install, and I can't get past the installation's "Welcome" screen that asks for my language, although I can get that screen to automatically pop-up (instead of having to double click the install icon)
I've read through: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbiquityAutomation and https://help.ubuntu.com/16.04/installation-guide/amd64/apbs01.html
This is my pxe boot command:
LABEL Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit -- PRESEED
KERNEL Ubuntu/16.04/amd64/vmlinuz.efi
APPEND automatic-ubiquity file=/srv/install/ubuntu/16.04/amd64/preseed/custom.seed boot=boot=casper netboot=nfs nfsroot=myip:/srv/install/ubuntu/16.04/amd64 initrd=Ubuntu/16.04/am64/initrd.lz
And here is the top of custom.seed
ubiquity languagechooser/language-name select English
ubiquity localechooser/supported-locales multiselect en_US.UTF8
d-i debian-installer/locale string en_GB.utf8
But these does seem to be enough to get past the installer's first question.
How can I get past the first Welcome/language screen?
I understand it is possible to do this with the netboot image rather than the live cd, but I would like to know why I can't get this to work, because it seems like it should!