Hi Mike, On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 10:32:54AM +0200, Viktor Mihajlovski wrote: > On 12.05.2016 20:17, Michael MacIsaac wrote: > > I've been trying 'preseeding' with no luck. To specify network values, you > > cannot expect to get them on the network, right? So you can't add one line > > to the parm file like "auto url=http://<installServer>/config/ubuntu01.cfg" > > to point to a file on the network. > > > > Also I believe there's a limit of like 12 lines in the parm file, and there > > would probably be a need for more than 12 settings. So, how to specify the
Actually, there is no such line limit. The content of the parmfile is limited to approx. 850 bytes/characters. Depending on where you create the the parmfile, for example, XEDIT, you have to consider the fixed block size which is filled with blanks. > > preseeding values? > It is possible to set some preseeding values as kernel parameters in the > parmfile and then point to a preseed URL, which means you could > configure the network interface via parmfile and specify the remaining > values in your remote preseed file. I have only done partial preseeding > so far, though, so I don't know how far you can get. Agreed with Viktor, put everything into the parmfile to configure the network and use an url= preseed to download additional files. Thanks and kind regards, Hendrik ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
