[Nottingham] Automating Installs

[Mat Booth]

On 12 February 2011 00:25, Christopher Joice <christopher at c25.eu> wrote:
> 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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We normally automatically provision new Red Hat boxes (and obviously
Fedora too) using a kickstart script to automate the install. You can
even do this remotely via PXE boot too. Just tell the user to reboot
and bam! New OS. :-)

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart

I don't know if anything similar exists for Ubuntu.

-- 
Mat Booth
http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora