- #HOW TO INSTALL UBUNTU ON A MAC USING NETBOOT FULL#
- #HOW TO INSTALL UBUNTU ON A MAC USING NETBOOT PASSWORD#
- #HOW TO INSTALL UBUNTU ON A MAC USING NETBOOT ISO#
My Centos kickstart files use SHA passwords.
#HOW TO INSTALL UBUNTU ON A MAC USING NETBOOT PASSWORD#
–iscrypted option may be used to state that the password is already MD5-hashed # kickstart part 1Ĭreating a user is required in the standard Ubuntu way, and the docs state that
I used that, with parameters and enhancements based on my Centos build. The Ubuntu docs provide an example to get started with. The web server needs to host the kickstart file referred to in the TFTP boot params. My web server root is: /srv/http/pxe – within that there’s directories call centos, ubuntu, and ks, amongst others. srv/http/iso/ubuntu-18.04.4-server-amd64.iso /srv/http/pxe/ubuntu/server/bionic/amd64 iso9660 ro,context="system_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t:s0" 0 0 Mine’s running Centos with SELinux, so I need to provide the context.
#HOW TO INSTALL UBUNTU ON A MAC USING NETBOOT ISO#
Start by mounting the ISO within your web server.
#HOW TO INSTALL UBUNTU ON A MAC USING NETBOOT FULL#
Wherever you put them within the TFTP directory structure, bear in mind that in pxelinux.cfg/default, you need to set the full path from the TFTP server’s perspective. ( update: see the hardware enablement section below if, for Bionic, you want the 5.x kernel instead of the GA 4.x kernel.) Install/netboot/ubuntu-installer/amd64/initrd.gz They two files, within the ISO, are: install/netboot/ubuntu-installer/amd64/linux I’ve started with a server build, and downloaded ubuntu-18.04.4-server-amd64.iso To boot linux over TFTP you need two files from the distribution: the kernel, and initrd.įor more on getting the tftp server working, checkout other posts on my site with the tftp tag. The Kickstart configuration in this blog post will wipe a machine and reinstall it, so it’s easy to iterate and improve the build.
It’s based one Debian’s docs, but has references likeĮxclusions in %packages sections are no longer supported as of Ubuntu 6.10Īnd it refers to encrypting passwords with MD5, but not SHA.īut, I’ve got a fully automated setup working. Ubuntu’s documentation is badly in need of updating.
There’s a PXE boot example configuration on the community net installation page, but that uses NFS. However, my Centos setup uses http (plus TFTP for the PXE bit) as I’d found NFS was inexplicably glacial when building KVM virtual machines. I’d previously had this working over NFS I stumbled over a backup of my configuration for 14.04, 12.04, and 11.10 using NFS. I already have a Raspberry Pi serving up Centos over the network, and I wanted to add Ubuntu.