Kickstart is a good tool that help us while booting new environment for development. The most boring thing about that i see about it, You need to use different ks.conf files for different distros.
Ubuntu has such a good GUI tool that helps you about prepare ks.conf file from zero to hero(Absolutely NOT)
You can download it from Ubuntu Repos.
|
1 |
sudo apt-get install system-config-kickstart |
You can create your initial ks.conf file according to your wishes. Absolutely it does not work without configuring it by hand.
Problems that I experienced was about partitioning disk.After that as you know following episode RTFM. It was really boring believe me. Whatever, also i don’t want to make this blog post too.
Lets start.
First was accepting “Finish partitioning and write changes to disk”
Solution add this line to your ks.conf
|
1 |
preseed partman/choose_partition select Finish partitioning and write changes to disk |
Second one was
Solution is add this line to your ks.conf
|
1 |
preseed partman/confirm_nooverwrite boolean true |
As you see it’s not look like professional work and effort to solve this but creating image, uploading to main ESXi server stole so much time from me. I hope it will solve your problem too.
Source that I used for it;
- https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apbs04.html.en
- https://gist.github.com/hitsumabushi/11104627#file-preseed_debian-cfg