Subiquity is an installer framework for Ubuntu, providing the Ubuntu Server text UI installer, and Ubuntu Core first boot configuration. It also functions as the backend for other Ubuntu install cases such as the flutter-based Desktop installer and as part of WSL configuration.
Questions tagged [subiquity]
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Automated 20.04 Server Installation using PXE and live server image
How to do an fully automated Ubuntu 20.04 Server install using PXE and the live server image?
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With the 20.04 release, it seems clear Ubuntu is further pushing the live server installer (subiquity) option. The debian-installer (d-i) image has…
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Disable auto update at end of autoinstall/cloud-init
I have a working cloud-init that is deployed using packer. Once the VM is booted and the autoinstall is completed, Ubuntu does the auto update thing. This seems to take forever to complete and is an unneeded step since we hand over to puppet after…
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Curtin error on autoinstall Ubuntu 20.04.1
It fails when I try to use a local focal mirror or if I set a proxy. Here is the install log snippet:
2020-12-01 13:47:16,916 DEBUG root:39 start: subiquity/InstallProgress/install/curtin_install/cmd-install/stage-curthooks: configuring installed…
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Running commands after an auto-install
I am installing Ubuntu 20.04 server via UEFI HTTP booting, subiquity and a NoCloud data source. The actual install works and I get the base OS running.
I also need to configure some things after installation is complete, or on first boot after the…
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Where do Subiquity's (Ubuntu Server's) disk ids come from, in the disk partitioning stage?
In the manual partitioning stage of Subiquity (Ubuntu Server installer), there is a list of the disks, in the form of ids.
However, those are slightly different from the /dev/disk/by-id entries.
For example, Subiquity displays…
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Is it possible to convert the system installed from ubuntu-20.10-live-server-amd64.iso to the mini.iso-like system?
I have just installed "minimal" system from the ubuntu-20.10-live-server-amd64.iso ISO.
I'm doing this way because there is no mini.iso for 20.10.
I see that this system is very big (4.6 Gb!), has 577 deb-packages, contains Snaps (/snap is 506 Mb),…
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Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS: Failed Install (subiquity...install_fail/add_info)
I'm trying to update my home server to Ubuntu 20 however I'm having a bit of a problem.
I want to dual boot my current Ubuntu 16 with the new v20. I booted a Live USB and used GParted to shrink my dev/sda1 in size and then directly after it, I…
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Ubuntu 20.04 installer downloads ISO more than once
I have been working through the example posted by Andrew Lowther at Automated 20.04 Server Installation using PXE and live server image . For example using a linux cmdline similar to:
linux /vmlinuz ip=dhcp…
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How can I properly debug a faulty 22.04 LTS Server autoinstall done with the new subiquity frame?
edit2: Over the 2 weeks with subiquity and cloud-init, I pieced together a new shell script with example user-data file and an altered grub.cfg as the one by covertsh did not work for me any longer due to removal of isolinux as part of 21.10. The…
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Ubuntu Server 20.04.2 LTS: Failed Install on bare-metal dual-AMD server (install failed crashed with CalledProcessError)
I am a newer Ubuntu user embarking on my first bare-metal server build with Ubuntu Server (20.04.2 LTS).
I'm encountering a failed installation with an odd error that I cannot seem to decipher (CalledProcessError). I am installing from a USB ISO,…
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add packages to subiquity based installation
I build a installation for servers and desktops by adding ubuntu-minimal-desktop
It works so far, but only when connected to wired-network
So I would like to add the wpasupplicant and the ubuntu-minimal-desktop and some other packages to the iso, so…
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20.04 autoinstall ejecting iso after first reboot
I am working on upgrading an offline/disconnected installation of Ubuntu that used to be 18.04 with D-I to 20.04 with autoinstall/cloud-init.
I have most everything working out so far, but one of the changes I cannot find documentation for is…
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Installation failed, /target/run - mount point does not exist
I'm trying to install Ubuntu server on an old Dell Inspiron 7348 laptop. I created a new ext4 root partition next to the Windows partitions (I want to keep Windows there), but the installer is always failing on a mount command:
Stdout: + mount…
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20.04 live server automated install hangs on "finish: subiquity/Refresh: SUCCESS: completed", not able to login
I try to install 20.04 live server image on bare metal BIOS based device. I'm following this guide. I managed to set up dnsmasq, TFTP and HTTP servers, but after running user-data script booting hangs with: finish: subiquity/Refresh: SUCCESS:…
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How would I autoinstall 22.04 from USB?
What the best way using Subquitity/Seed/Cloudinit to auto install an Ubuntu Desktop 22.04 image?
Our staff use Ubuntu and rather than keeping one fat image lying about which is time consuming to update I would rather use files to auto install and…
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