AUTOMATIC INSTALLATION OF LINUX ( UBUNTU / DEBIAN / FEDORA / CENTOS / RHEL ) - XML2HOSTCONF.
If you copy and paste snippets, remember to replace these with your own hostnames. My NFS URI used a virtual hostname nfs with its own IP address in the same subnet but ouside the DHCP pool, aliased in tates / etc / network / interfaces. org/download/doc/README-config
thefastestwaytobreakamachine Not strictly necessary but makes the menu pretty menu hshift 13 menu width 49 menu margin 8 menu title BackTrackBoot default vesamenu. c32 display f.txt timeout 600 label local menu label Local Harddisk localboot 0 menu begin bt menu title BackTrack 5 # ok here comes the real label backtrack5 menu label BackTrack R Not strictly necessary but makes the menu pretty menu hshift 13 menu width 49 menu margin 8 menu title BackTrackBoot default vesamenu. Network Configuration d-i netcfg / get_hostname string localhost d-i netcfg / get_domain string localdomain d-i netcfg / disable_dhcp boolean false d-i mirror / http / proxy string d-i netcfg / choose_interface select auto d-i netcfg / wireless_wep string # Disk Partitioning / Boot loader. You can upgrade the libebox package to the 2.0.2. Have made no changes, this just appeared today: Sorry, an unexpected. Select VPN-gt;Servers and goto Download Client Bundle on any Server. Blahdeblah: Remote host closed the connection. Ahuman: Remote host closed the connection. cfg that sets the passwords and other package values. D-i passwd / root-password-crypted password $1$NHxfkWun$PMGLFNFtPKwIFT532sinD1.
WWW.DEBIAN.ORG RELEASES LENNY EXAMPLE PRESEED.TXT.
That should be replaced with a known password, for instance. Debian requires that you pass a preseed configuration file which is sort of like their kickstart. In our example, we will set an en_GB locale, keyboard, the hostname will be provided by our DHCP server, timezone will be Europe / Dublin. Changed node search to use certname rather than Facter hostname. Added preseed to apt uninstall and purge. Nagios_serviceescalation not allowing host_name more than one type. Nagios_servicedependency needs a unique host_name. The example preseed files I have found online always show ftp.us.debian. Your preseed file should take care of any other choices. Enter in the Computer name or IP address and the other details (Protocol, User Name, password, domain, client Hostname etc. Just as you can save configuration settings on a Windows Terminal Server Client, the same can done with tsclient by setting options in the Dislpay, Local Resources, Programs, orPerformance tabs. Gutsy Desktop # Set apt-mirror d-i mirror / suite string gutsy d-i mirror / country string enter information manually d-i mirror / http / hostname string waiter d-i mirror / http / directory string / ubuntu-7.10-alternate-i386 / ubuntu d-i apt-setup / universe boolean false. Not strictly necessary but makes the menu pretty menu hshift 13 menu width 49 menu margin 8 menu title BackTrackBoot default vesamenu.
INSTALLING DEBIAN ON GLAN TANK.
If a preseed file cannot be used to preseed some steps, the install can # still be fully automated, since you can pass preseed values to the kernel # on the command line. You might want to preseed redmine / default-language to en. Otherwise it defaults to bg and the database will contain . Weve sent this information to the package maintainer. Echo redmine redmine / default-language select en debconf-set-selections. The domain attribute is sent in the HELO to the email server. Current version Jochen Schalanda, 05 / 23 / 2010 02:13 pm. Foreman automates network boot processes using PXEboot (or native Solaris net:dhcp). And we dont have to fiddle with our hostname to get the correct role. Also if we want to test multiple roles on this one test machine, just add another role to the data / etc / server_tags file. Data \u2514\u2500\u2500 etc \u2514\u2500\u2500 server_tags $ cat data / etc / server_tags role:webserver=true. Once again, set values in the preseed file, assign the hostname with dhcp, but you must pass the string hostname=x domain=x to the kernel. Boot an install kernel, tell it where the preseed file is and as the install scripts run, they get their answers from the preseed file. D-i netcfg / get_nameservers string 192.168.1.1 #d-i netcfg / get_ipaddress string 192.168.1.42 #d-i netcfg / get_netmask string 255.255.255.0 #d-i netcfg / get_gateway string 192.168.1.1 #d-i netcfg / confirm_static boolean true # Any hostname and domain names assigned from dhcp take precedence over # values set here. Now, as you saw in Part 4 we used the hostname puppet for our broker, and that should work fine as we already have an SSL cert for that hostname.
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Le systeme dautomatisation des distributions Debian et de ses derivees est Preseed. La version de Kickstart presente dans Ubuntu et ses derivees demultiplie les possibilites en permettant lutilisation de commandes Preseed. D-i netcfg / get_nameservers string 192.168.1.1 #d-i netcfg / get_ipaddress string 192.168.1.42 #d-i netcfg / get_netmask string 255.255.255.0 #d-i netcfg / get_gateway string 192.168.1.1 #d-i netcfg / confirm_static boolean true # Any hostname and domain names assigned from dhcp take precedence over # values set here. Isset ${hostname} set initiator-iqn ${base-iqn}:${hostname} set initiator-iqn ${base-iqn}:${mac. Set initiator-iqn to either hostname or mac. Ensure we have menu-default set to something. Isset ${menu-default} set menu-default exit. Current issues in Debian Installer for Grip. The current preseeding has been tested with the installer from Lenny 5.0.6. For Squeeze (Emdebian Grip 2.0.3, Debian 6.0.3), prebuilt ISO images are available. Ideally, you would have a DHCP server which provides the GLAN Tank with all necessary information, such as IP and gateway, as well as information such as the hostname. If neither DHCP is available to you nor will these static values work in your case, you need to preseed other values into your installer image. To do that, we utilize build-image like: $. / build-image -vv -preseed preseed. cfg oneiric amd64 8G Note, the above command wont actually work right now. So . / build-image -vv -preseed preseed.
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cfg natty amd64 8G should work, but oneiric wont. sh is used when the os is installed and rebooted. It simulates a manual install by levering VRDP to type some linux boot string and have the kickstart / preseed read over an HTTP server. quot;Could not stat resume device file. Problem compiling 2.6.26 kernel. The options for that will be handed over (the options for the hostnames would be deliberately omitted here, as every target system has its own Hostname). D-i netcfg / get_nameservers string 192.168.1.1 #d-i netcfg / get_ipaddress string 192.168.1.42 #d-i netcfg / get_netmask string 255.255.255.0 #d-i netcfg / get_gateway string 192.168.1.1 #d-i netcfg / confirm_static boolean true # Any hostname and domain names assigned from dhcp take precedence over # values set here. Beware that the preseed need to ahve right name. As example one preseed for VMWare (Guest) servers etc All our preseed files are placed on a webserver but you should know that it is also possible to integrate the preseed process into a self made Debian installation medium. Meine Preseed-Datei fur virtuelle Maschinen konnte ich eigentlich fast komplett ubernehmen, nur ein Befehl hat sich geandert. I want my automated install to ask me for a hostname. I wasnt interested in re-authoring ISOs or setting up a TFTP server, so I went with a web-accessible preseed file.
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Because web-accessible preseed files arent available until the network is configured, the step to assign a static IP address gets missed.
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