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Questions tagged [autoinstall]

For questions about the automated installation mode (autoinstall for short) of Ubuntu Server 20.04 and later. Do not use this tag for questions about the autoinstall option of the ubuntu-drivers command.

Since version 20.04, the Ubuntu Server installer supports the automated installation mode, autoinstallation for short. You might also know this feature as unattended or handsoff or preseeded installation.

Autoinstallation lets you answer all those configuration questions ahead of time with an autoinstall config and lets the installation process run without any interaction. source

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Ubuntu 22.04 Autoinstall method

Does anybody figured out the right way of providing autoinstall data with custom iso file via grub? Clearly Ubuntu 22.04 doesn't provide the nice way of definition of boot commands via casper (sort of interactive menu [after boot, F6 and so on..])…
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Autoinstall build of Ubuntu Server 20.04, does not autoinstall

I'm trying to build a Ubuntu 20.04 server with autoinstall. But it looks like it isn't picking up the setup file. I'm using packer, however I also tried this manually and got the same…
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Ubuntu Autoinstall - UEFI

We want to use the new ubuntu autoinstall method Autoinstall. There are some problems getting UEFI boot to work. I've installed Ubuntu Server 20.04 with the normal installer and EFI method and then acquired the following user-data…
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Ubuntu 22.04 Desktop LTS unattended installation

I am trying to search around for the Ubuntu 22.04 Desktop autoinstall (like the Windows ISO image. We could deploy on the Windows ISO image, and make it install automatically with our customization once we boot up.), but I only get the autoinstall…
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Ubuntu autoinstall disable prompt during iso installation

I'm generating my own iso using autoinstall, here is the configuration: #cloud-config autoinstall: version: 1 identity: hostname: foo-ubuntu password: "qqqaaaqqqaaa" username: abcabc late-commands: - cp -r /cdrom/copy_to_iso/…
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Ubuntu offline autoinstall ISO

I am migrating an offline autoinstall ISO from Ubuntu 16.04 to 20.04. Previously I used the debian-installer preseed file. To disable online mirrors and force an offline install I could use the following line: d-i apt-setup/no_mirror boolean…
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ubuntu autoinstall interface names

It seems not possible on Ubuntu autoinstallations (14.04.3 and 15.04) to configure the right network interface via preseed. Ubuntu sometimes uses eth0, and sometimes interfaces like p2p1, or p1p3. I know how these names will be generated. But how…
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Autoinstall curtin FAIL: removing previous storage devices with RAID1

I create an ISO with autoinstall that needs to be generic. It should work on VMs, physical machines with legacy bios, EFI bios, with and without RAID. In my autoinstall.yml, I don't have anything related to storage (as I want it to be as generic as…
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Autoinstall from ISO File

Can someone suggest the steps or a guide to use autoinstall function starting 22.04 Server ISO? My goal is use an ISO to install Ubuntu Server 22.04, and provide info for automating install (first user, package to install, partitioning...) without…
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Autoinstaller: keep the /home if available, (and automatically add users)

What I would like to do is to make an autoinstaller that only installs the OS but would try to keep, and attach, an existing home directory - and automatically make the user(s) again. But looking through Curtin storage documentation, it seems that…
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Ubuntu 22.04 autoinstall pxe not getting user-data

testing on VirtualBox an automated install of ubuntu desktop, i have a router, dhcp, tftp, http server. This is my pxelinux.cfg/default: UI menu.c32 LABEL Ubuntu MENU LABEL Ubuntu KERNEL ubuntu/casper/vmlinuz INITRD ubuntu/casper/initrd …
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Autoinstall Lubuntu

I successfully was able to autoinstall Ubuntu Server 22.04 by calling following GRUB commands. provides a user-data config file where users will be created etc. linux /casper/vmlinuz autoinstall ds=nocloud-net;seedfrom=/…
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How to install packages offline with Ubuntu 22.04 Server Autoinstall

I am making a custom ISO w/ autoinstall to automatically install Ubuntu Server onto our machines. We of course need to install some apt packages as part of the customization. The problem is, this installation needs to be done entirely offline, so I…
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Ubuntu autoinstall, cant get past welcome screen

cant get it past the welcome screen using auto,this is the welcome screen that asks for keyboard typing, timezome, wifi, privacy, user creation.. if i reboot at this screen without entering anything it goes to the login screen but i want to get…
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Subiquity - Dual Boot Storage Setup

Is it possible to install Ubuntu 22 via Subiquity alongside a Windows install on 1 disk? And if so, how is the user-data file configured? In pre-seed, I could use the following: d-i partman-auto/init_automatically_partition select biggest_free But…
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