Re: Ubuntu installation

The Ubuntu world has MAAS so you might look at that for doing installs.

For doing updates locally there are tools for mirroring apt repositories.
debmirror works with ubuntu repos. Make sure it uses a name you can resolve
locally.

Kevin

On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 4:00 PM isdtor <[email protected]> wrote:

> The point is not Internet access vs. none. It's about control over what
> gets installed. Enterprises and home users have different requirements.
>
> Preseeding works well and I have managed to automate almost everything -
> almost. What I cannot automate, and I've tried a number of different
> preseed settings, is to automate the answers for "[!] Configuring grub-pc".
> Interaction is required to select the boot device and then continue. No
> combination of grub-pc/install_devices options that I've tried works here.
> It is possible that the installer doesn't do virtual machines well (vda vs.
> sda), I haven't had a chance to test a physical machine yet.
>
> At this point I would be happy to not havel a bootloader and
> "late_command" it, but even that doesn't work (grub-installer skip and
> lilo-installer skip seem to have no effect).
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