Autoinstalling ubuntu-server 20.04.3 from the live-iso

bastian-src · September 30, 2022, 9:58am

Thanks for your comment. The latest version of the PXELinux Autoinstall template does also support static IP deployment. Have a look here:

github.com

theforeman/foreman/blob/627118e65fa0cd67628696a748fbb72498afff74/app/views/unattended/provisioning_templates/PXELinux/preseed_default_pxelinux_autoinstall.erb#L33-L41


      
          if mac
            # hardware type is always 01 (ethernet) unless specified otherwise
            options << "BOOTIF=#{host_param("hardware_type", "01")}-#{mac.gsub(':', '-')}"
          end
          if subnet4 && subnet4.dhcp_boot_mode?
            options << "ip=dhcp"
          elsif subnet4 && !subnet4.dhcp_boot_mode?
            options << "ip=#{iface.ip}::#{subnet4.gateway}:#{subnet4.mask}:#{hostname}:#{iface.identifier}:none:#{subnet4.dns_primary}:#{subnet4.dns_secondary}"
          end

Do I understand you right that the bootdisk setup uses the PXELinux template still or does it take a different one?

The fact that your ISO is downloaded twice origins from a design issue of Ubuntu Autoinstall. You can append cloud-config-url=/dev/null. Have a look here: askubuntu.com.

I don’t quite understand the question in your post, could you elaborate it more? In case you want some help debugging your vmware issue: It sounds a bit like the typical error that occurs when the user-data template is not correct. Can you verify this?