How to get HTTP preseed to work correctly on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid)?
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Installation media: ubuntu-10.04-desktop-i386.iso
I tried a lot of different boot parameters, but either the installer ignored the preseed configuration, or it boot itself directly as LiveCD.
An example of the boot parameters I've tried:
auto url=http://mydomain.com/path/preseed.cfg boot=casper only-ubiquity initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash --
If I remove only-ubiquity
, it boots as a LiveCD. If I remove boot=casper
, it won't boot. If I add vga=normal locale=en_US console-setup/layoutcode=us console-setup/ask_detect=false interface=auto
, it still can't do automatic install. If I remove auto
, it's the same.
What is the correct boot parameters for launching such an installation?
From the apache log of the server hosting preseed.cfg
, I see that the installer has no problems fetching the preseed file. My preseed file is almost identical to the one at https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/installation-guide/example-preseed.txt. Moreover, I have run debconf-set-selections -c preseed.cfg
to ensure that the preseed file is correct.
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