Hi Andrew,
Many thanks for your clear and specific hints. We together discovered a bug in
2.4.0 in epel-testing too: that the magic variables in the bundled sample.seed
do not take effect:
30 # Setup the installation source 31 d-i mirror/country string
manual 32 d-i mirror/http/hostname string $http_server:$http_port 33
d-i mirror/http/directory string $install_source_directory 34 d-i
mirror/http/proxy string
The --kopts values did the magic of setting the network interface to use during
install too.
I deliberated a bit about using the {linux, initrd.gz} in
install/netboot/ubuntu-install/amd64 makes sense, since PXE boot is a kind of
network install. Regretably, Canonical pays so much attention to the desktop
usage scenarios that it fails to mention this requirement anywhere AFAIK.
Now I just need to come up a script to set the hostname, static IP etc, then
all are set 8-)
Best Regards,
-- Zack
Hi,
[...]You can try pointing the preseed file to the proxy using the following
entries:
d-i mirror/http/hostname string <IP or Hostname of the proxy>d-i
mirror/http/directory string <directory where the repository is>
We currently use the above with our internal mirrors and it works like a charm.
I'm not sure about the dnsmasq proxy and if / how it will work for you.
The repos will most likely only be added to the preseed by using a snippet and
templating. I'm not totally sure about this so hopefully someone with some more
info can help you out here. For a standard cobbler installation your directory
setting would be similar to "cblr/ks_mirror/<distro_name>/".
[...]
The preseed file needs to be downloaded before the values in the preseed file
can be used but it needs info such as which interface to use to download the
preseed file. So you can place the following into the "Kernel Options" on
either the profile or the distro in cobbler:
interface=eth0 vga16fb.modeset=0 locale=en_US
keyboard-configuration/layoutcode=us
You will mainly be in the "interface=eth0" entry as it will tell the
installation to use interface eth0 for the network connection and will in turn
allow you to download your preseed file.
Regards,
Andrew[...]
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