Re: Media Ejecting after Install

[Paul Gear]

On 10/18/2012 01:50 PM, Matthew Mace wrote:

Hi All,

First time poster, been watching for who knows how ever long.. Just 
curious if there is any known command or switch or modification that 
can be done to prevent the CD from being ejected after completion of 
the OS installation.


I work with servers and although 95% is now virtual and I don't need 
to worry about physical media, there are a few servers that are still 
dedicated and therefore it would be handy to leave the CD in the drive 
when I finish installing Ubuntu Remotely through iDRAC or iLO etc. 
(Remote Server System Management). That way if things fails it can be 
redone without having to go back to the data centre and push the CD 
back into the drive.


Any thoughts appreciated.


Hi Matthew,

No one has suggested anything on this so far, so i figured i'd throw you 
a suggestion: don't use physical media.  Set up a PXE boot server and 
load your ISO images from PXE rather than physical CDs. You can usually 
control all that via the integrated management card.


There may be an easy way to do what you want (and i'm certain it can be 
done by rebuilding the ISO image without the ejection code), but it's 
probably going to help in other ways to have a PXE server anyway.


Regards,
Paul
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Media Ejecting after Install

[Matthew Mace]

Hi All,

First time poster, been watching for who knows how ever long.. Just curious
if there is any known command or switch or modification that can be done to
prevent the CD from being ejected after completion of the OS installation.

I work with servers and although 95% is now virtual and I don't need to
worry about physical media, there are a few servers that are still
dedicated and therefore it would be handy to leave the CD in the drive when
I finish installing Ubuntu Remotely through iDRAC or iLO etc. (Remote
Server System Management). That way if things fails it can be redone
without having to go back to the data centre and push the CD back into the
drive.

Any thoughts appreciated.

Cheers,


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