Coming from Fedora I'm quite adept at Kickstart for installing desktop machines.
What is the officially recommended way to install multiple Ubuntu desktop machines?
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Coming from Fedora I'm quite adept at Kickstart for installing desktop machines.
What is the officially recommended way to install multiple Ubuntu desktop machines?
In my opinion, If you are really going to install a Linux Ubuntu Operating System to your
multiple desktop machine. I recommend you should use the Linux Ubuntu Operating System 20.04 LTS
LTS stands for Long Term Support. Actually, It really depends on you which is more convenient to your needs.
I don't think there is any official answer. Nobody here works for Canonical. May want to ask on IRC.
https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/installa...amd64/apb.html Is that not what you seek? It is based on the older deb-install stuff.
A little google-fu found these:
- https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/insta...all-quickstart
- https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/install/autoinstall
- https://askubuntu.com/questions/1235...e-server-image
With the removal of python2, many 20.04 and later distributions have challenges in previously working scripts.
There isn't an easy solution for centralized LDAP that doesn't go through MS-AD. If you keep a FreeIPA server, that can still be used or some other openldap manager can work, provided it supports POSIX schemas.
Update:
I just did a server install following the Quickstart. Did it into a KVM VM (that's my skillset). I plan to try adding a few packages to the install using the autoinstall.yaml file shortly. xfdesktop4 will be key, though I don't really use any DEs. There is a "late-commands" option in the autoinstall file to do the post-install stuff we all like - say putting our ssh keys, bash_aliases, and some extra packages we like or remove some packages we dislike (nano!!!) from the systems. I haven't tested the autoinstall.yaml yet. Still patching the server install, which had over 200 updated packages. Think my ISO was from the original server.iso pre-20.04.1. With your kickstart knowledge, the tftp part should be a breeze - I'd guess.
i am assuming that these machines are on a network and the network has access to the internet. This information might be useful. I have no experience of putting it into practice.
https://ubuntu.com/download/alternative-downloads
Check this link out under Server and Network Installations. It has links to other documentsQuote:
The network installer is also useful if you want to install Ubuntu on a large number of computers at once.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation
This link on installing over a local network may interest you.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/LocalNet
There may be easier methods. A more modern tutorial.
https://www.answertopia.com/ubuntu/i...ork-installer/
And this mentions Kickstart
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ki...830.1622927185
Regards
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