Allow preseeding $CC.archive.ubuntu.com-style setup
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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choose-mirror (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
|
Colin Watson | ||
installation-guide (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
|
Colin Watson |
Bug Description
Debian's debian-installer documentation says:
(http://
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Alternatively, one way to get a complete file listing all the values that can be
preseeded is to do a manual install, and then use debconf-
the debconf-utils package, to dump both the debconf database and the cdebconf
database in /var/log/
$ debconf-
$ debconf-
However, a file generated in this manner will have some items that should not
be preseeded, and the file in Section C.1[1], “Preconfiguration File Example” is
a better starting place for most users.
[1] http://
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I tried the method above, but the installer still had trouble completing without
prompting me for debconf questions despite the fact that they were already
answered by the preseed file. (I tried a variety of preseed files) It'd be great
if Ubuntu could provide a starter preseed file which includes, for example,
entries for specifying the country-code based Ubuntu mirror. I've been able to
seed the installation such that when the installer prompts me for a mirror, only
us.archive.
installer to not ask me.
I did find
ftp://ftp.
but this seems to be a copy of the Debian example as it preseeds exim. (though
"Ubuntu" does appear in here which is probably a mass s/Debian/Ubuntu/g thing.)
Changed in choose-mirror: | |
assignee: | kamion → nobody |
status: | Unconfirmed → Confirmed |
Changed in choose-mirror: | |
assignee: | nobody → kamion |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
Changed in installation-guide: | |
assignee: | nobody → cjwatson |
status: | Fix Released → New |
status: | New → Fix Released |
http:// archive. ubuntu. com/ubuntu/ dists/hoary/ main/installer- i386/current/ doc/manual/ en/apcs01. html
It may be out of date, though, and I'm not sure that the country-code mirror
thing is actually preseedable yet. Current preseed/debconf (possibly post-Hoary)
allow you to tweak the seen flag separately.