On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 9:46 PM, Jayson Barr <jbarr(a)nmt.edu> wrote:
Hello all,
I am having a problem getting preseed files to work with cobbler and
was hoping for some help.
I filed a ticket here:
https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/ticket/344
Someone responded that I should bring this up in the mailing list, so here I go.
Here I will basically past everything from the ticket with a little at
the end about some recent developments:
I am running cobbler 1.3.4 on FC8. I am successfully using it to
automate Fedora Core 8 and 10 installations with my customized
kickstarts. Truly, cobbler is fantastic, but I am having a lot of
problems using it to preseed custom ubuntu installations.
The short story: I can't get cobbler to use my preseed file.
The long story: First off, using import results in the creation of
[...]
So, I looked at the DebianDeployment page some more and basically did
the old suggested steps of importing a full install disc as well as a
netboot image. Neither import worked, so I did "cobbler repo add" and
"cobbler distro add" with them and now they appear in "cobbler list"
output. I used "cobbler edit" to make the normal Ubuntu distro use the
kernel and initrd from the netboot image.
Could you send the configuration for the distro & profile you did
create ? I believe command is `cobbler distro report --name=...`
Also, although I'm quite sure that it will not work with version 1.3.4, maybe
the AlternateDebianDeployment page on wiki could give you some hints.
When I created the profile for this installation method, I used
--kickstart=/path/to/preseedfile.cfg
Maybe the preseed was not copied to the proper location. Without
the "report" output, I can only suggest to test without explicit kickstart,
leaving cobbler to setup the default.seed
### Mirror settings
# If you select ftp, the mirror/use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext3 } \
# mountpoint{ / }
\country string does not need to be set.
#d-i mirror/protocol string ftp
d-i mirror/country string enter United States
d-i mirror/http/hostname string 192.168.1.254
d-i mirror/http/directory string /cobbler/repo_mirror/Ubuntu_8.10
d-i mirror/http/proxy string
Well, that was a lot of information. Hopefully someone has a suggestion?
I don't remember right now how to do it, but using a custom mirror was
a little bit tricky. Maybe the sample kickstarts could also give you a
hint.
Javier Palacios