[ale] Need help with an Ubuntu ks.cfg

[Ted W]

On Jun 20, 2012, at 4:47 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> yes! Bingo!
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> That .disk is used to identify the install disk to anaconda. It is a crucial chunk. sorry. I didn't realize you had a home-built installation disk.
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> There's a pattern to the code in that file. If you compact a CD tree int a single DVD, the disk id does not need to change.
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> HOWEVER! If you add a disk the disk id must be different for disk 2+ and later in sequence that earlier disks. 
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> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Ted W <ted at techmachine.net> wrote:
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> On Jun 20, 2012, at 10:52 AM, Ted W wrote:
>> On Jun 20, 2012, at 9:52 AM, Brian MacLeod wrote:
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>> By "invoke kickstart" I presume you mean how I'm calling the ks.cfg file? What I've done is changed the "append" line in /isolinux/txt.cfg to the following:
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> Ok, so I ended up caving and just went with the "official" unattended method of using a preseed file... I don't understand why everyone can't just use kickstart...
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> Using the preseed file I was able to get everything working without a hitch and I fear that what was hanging me up on the preseed file may also have been my downfall with the kickstart file. Apparently there is a /.disk file on the iso image and using cp does not pull the hidden files over. After copying over the .disk directory everything worked with preseed. I've not tried again with my ks.cfg file yet, however.
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Yup, once I got the .disk directory copied to the new ISO image both the preseeding method and the ks.cfg method worked. I was having trouble getting the preseed file to actually install the additional packages I specified with the pkgsel lines. They installed just fine when specified from the %packages section of the ks.cfg though.
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