[Nottingham] Automating Installs

Christopher Joice christopher at c25.eu
Sat Feb 12 00:30:19 UTC 2011


Does anyone have any experience with automating installs of Fedora and / or
Ubuntu?

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.

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"

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!

Is ubuntu easier?

Thoughts, advice, complete and working scripts, all welcome!
Thanks,
Christopher
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