histamineblkr
August 9th, 2016, 10:16 PM
Issue
I have accomplished a completely unattended install of Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS. It is very simple and rather generic, but I can put the CDROM in and walk away. The current issue is with installing packages and using either the ubiquity/success_command and the d-i preseed/late_command string ...
It seems, all of these are ignored.
According to Ubiquity documentation the following are ignored, found here (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbiquityAutomation):
netcfg
LVM and RAID partitioning
base-installer
pkgsel/tasksel
finish-install
So using something like
d-i pkgsel/include string openssh-server salt-minion vim wget
has no effect at all.
I have researched for a few days now and common suggestions are to use the preseed/early_command or preseed/late_command. I have tried many different ways to get this to work, but none have so far. The Ubuntu documentation found here (https://help.ubuntu.com/16.04/installation-guide/example-preseed.txt) suggests to write in:
d-i preseed/late_command string apt-install zsh
produces no result.
After looking at the syntax, I though 'apt-install' looks syntacticly weird so maybe this would work:
d-i preseed/late_command string in-target /usr/bin/apt-get install zsh
still it produced nothing.
I have also tried using the package 'system-config-kickstart' to create a kickstart file that would just install the packages I desire, but I have been unable to get that to work either. I will continue trying various kickstart files to see if I can get it to work, but it seems you have to include a lot of redundant options. I'm not sure how many option I can comment out, can I leave only the package part in and use just that portion for a kickstart file? According to the source code found here (http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-installer/kickseed/master/files/head:/handlers/), it hasn't been updated much with the most recent being 2014, but most around 2009. Also, no script to handle packages so I think that maybe a kickstart will not be much of an option.
Any help as to why the Ubuntu installer/Ubiquity or the preseed file is ignoring those options would be greatly appreciated.
Current preseed file (I took out the encrypted passwords and usernames):
# Partitioning
d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/sda
d-i partman-auto/method string regular
d-i partman-lvm/device_remove_lvm boolean true
d-i partman-md/device_remove_md boolean true
d-i partman-auto/choose_recipe select atomic
# This makes partman automatically partition without confirmation
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
# Locale
d-i debian-installer/locale string en_US
d-i console-setup/ask_detect boolean false
d-i console-setup/layoutcode string us
# Network
d-i netcfg/get_hostname string unassigned-hostname
d-i netcfg/get_domain string unassigned-domain
d-i netcfg/choose_interface select auto
# Clock
d-i clock-setup/utc-auto boolean true
d-i clock-setup/utc boolean true
d-i time/zone string US/Pacific
d-i clock-setup/ntp boolean true
# Packages, Mirrors, Image
d-i base-installer/kernel/override-image string linux-image-amd64
d-i mirror/country string US
d-i mirror/http/proxy string
d-i apt-setup/restricted boolean true
d-i apt-setup/universe boolean true
#d-i pkgsel/install-language-support boolean false
#tasksel tasksel/first multiselect ubuntu-desktop
#d-i pkgsel/include string openssh-server salt-minion vim wget
#d-i pkgsel/upgrade full-upgrade
# Users
d-i passwd/user-fullname string <User Name>
d-i passwd/username string <user>
d-i passwd/user-password-crypted password <crypt 3 passwd>
d-i passwd/user-default-groups string adm audio cdrom dip lpadmin sudo plugdev sambashare video
d-i passwd/root-login boolean true
d-i passwd/root-password-crypted password <crypt 3 passwd>
d-i user-setup/allow-password-weak boolean true
# Grub
d-i grub-installer/grub2_instead_of_grub_legacy boolean true
d-i grub-installer/only_debian boolean true
d-i finish-install/reboot_in_progress note
# Custom Commands
d-i preseed/late_command string apt-install salt-minion
Current boot parameters in isolinux/isolinux.cfg:
default live-install
label live-install
menu label ^Install Ubuntu
kernel /casper/vmlinuz.efi
append file=/cdrom/ks.preseed auto=true priority=critical debian-installer/locale=en_US keyboard-configuration/layoutcode=us ubiquity/reboot=true languagechooser/language-name=English countrychooser/shortlist=US localechooser/supported-locales=en_US.UTF-8 boot=casper automatic-ubiquity initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash noprompt noshell ---
I have accomplished a completely unattended install of Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS. It is very simple and rather generic, but I can put the CDROM in and walk away. The current issue is with installing packages and using either the ubiquity/success_command and the d-i preseed/late_command string ...
It seems, all of these are ignored.
According to Ubiquity documentation the following are ignored, found here (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbiquityAutomation):
netcfg
LVM and RAID partitioning
base-installer
pkgsel/tasksel
finish-install
So using something like
d-i pkgsel/include string openssh-server salt-minion vim wget
has no effect at all.
I have researched for a few days now and common suggestions are to use the preseed/early_command or preseed/late_command. I have tried many different ways to get this to work, but none have so far. The Ubuntu documentation found here (https://help.ubuntu.com/16.04/installation-guide/example-preseed.txt) suggests to write in:
d-i preseed/late_command string apt-install zsh
produces no result.
After looking at the syntax, I though 'apt-install' looks syntacticly weird so maybe this would work:
d-i preseed/late_command string in-target /usr/bin/apt-get install zsh
still it produced nothing.
I have also tried using the package 'system-config-kickstart' to create a kickstart file that would just install the packages I desire, but I have been unable to get that to work either. I will continue trying various kickstart files to see if I can get it to work, but it seems you have to include a lot of redundant options. I'm not sure how many option I can comment out, can I leave only the package part in and use just that portion for a kickstart file? According to the source code found here (http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-installer/kickseed/master/files/head:/handlers/), it hasn't been updated much with the most recent being 2014, but most around 2009. Also, no script to handle packages so I think that maybe a kickstart will not be much of an option.
Any help as to why the Ubuntu installer/Ubiquity or the preseed file is ignoring those options would be greatly appreciated.
Current preseed file (I took out the encrypted passwords and usernames):
# Partitioning
d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/sda
d-i partman-auto/method string regular
d-i partman-lvm/device_remove_lvm boolean true
d-i partman-md/device_remove_md boolean true
d-i partman-auto/choose_recipe select atomic
# This makes partman automatically partition without confirmation
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
# Locale
d-i debian-installer/locale string en_US
d-i console-setup/ask_detect boolean false
d-i console-setup/layoutcode string us
# Network
d-i netcfg/get_hostname string unassigned-hostname
d-i netcfg/get_domain string unassigned-domain
d-i netcfg/choose_interface select auto
# Clock
d-i clock-setup/utc-auto boolean true
d-i clock-setup/utc boolean true
d-i time/zone string US/Pacific
d-i clock-setup/ntp boolean true
# Packages, Mirrors, Image
d-i base-installer/kernel/override-image string linux-image-amd64
d-i mirror/country string US
d-i mirror/http/proxy string
d-i apt-setup/restricted boolean true
d-i apt-setup/universe boolean true
#d-i pkgsel/install-language-support boolean false
#tasksel tasksel/first multiselect ubuntu-desktop
#d-i pkgsel/include string openssh-server salt-minion vim wget
#d-i pkgsel/upgrade full-upgrade
# Users
d-i passwd/user-fullname string <User Name>
d-i passwd/username string <user>
d-i passwd/user-password-crypted password <crypt 3 passwd>
d-i passwd/user-default-groups string adm audio cdrom dip lpadmin sudo plugdev sambashare video
d-i passwd/root-login boolean true
d-i passwd/root-password-crypted password <crypt 3 passwd>
d-i user-setup/allow-password-weak boolean true
# Grub
d-i grub-installer/grub2_instead_of_grub_legacy boolean true
d-i grub-installer/only_debian boolean true
d-i finish-install/reboot_in_progress note
# Custom Commands
d-i preseed/late_command string apt-install salt-minion
Current boot parameters in isolinux/isolinux.cfg:
default live-install
label live-install
menu label ^Install Ubuntu
kernel /casper/vmlinuz.efi
append file=/cdrom/ks.preseed auto=true priority=critical debian-installer/locale=en_US keyboard-configuration/layoutcode=us ubiquity/reboot=true languagechooser/language-name=English countrychooser/shortlist=US localechooser/supported-locales=en_US.UTF-8 boot=casper automatic-ubiquity initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash noprompt noshell ---