<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 12 February 2011 00:25, Christopher Joice <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:christopher@c25.eu">christopher@c25.eu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Does anyone have any experience with automating installs of Fedora and / or Ubuntu?<div><br></div><div>I need complete automation, with zero user interaction until the system is ready to log into. A script generates a VM, then loads in the iso, which should do EVERYTHING, including partitioning around existing OSs.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I've tried kickstarts on fedora, but I can't load the damn things in, the documentation says to "enter the following command at the boot: prompt (where ks.cfg is the name of the kickstart file): linux ks=cdrom:/ks.cfg"</div>
<div><br></div><div>However, the install cd uses grub, and there is no "boot: prompt". I tried editing the grub commands, but no luck so far, I was stabbing in the dark!</div><div><br></div><div>Is ubuntu easier?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thoughts, advice, complete and working scripts, all welcome!</div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Christopher</div>
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<div><br></div><div>Import a cd/dvd/iso image into cobbler, then you can define profiles for machine types, then system definitions for cobbler to PXE boot physical or virtual servers from. Can also be set up to provide a default install if you can't pre-define system definitions.<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>I build most of my RedHat customer machines this way as build times are very quick (usually < 5 minutes), repeatable, script-able (command line operation is available alongside a web GUI). project is active still and parts have been incorporated into RedHat Spacewalk. I believe there is an ongoing effort to modify it to enable Ubuntu installations too.</div>
<div><br></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/">https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div>
<div>Dylan</div>