2023-08-07 11:08:02 - 8 Comments
Looki Looki No Hands, Automatic install of Ubuntu server.
Extracting all the files from the original ISO
mkdir source-files
xorriso -osirrox on -indev ubuntu-22.04.2-live-server-amd64.iso --extract_boot_images source-files/bootpart -extract / source-filesEdit the boot menu
menuentry "Autoinstall Ubuntu Server" {
set gfxpayload=keep
linux /casper/vmlinuz quiet autoinstall ds=nocloud\;s=/cdrom/nocloud/ ---
initrd /casper/initrd
}Repack the ISO from the files you've edited.
xorriso -as mkisofs -r -V "ubuntu-autoinstall" -J -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -input-charset utf-8 -eltorito-alt-boot -b bootpart/eltorito_img1_bios.img -no-emul-boot -o ../installer.iso .
8 comments
Hello!
Looking to do this soon and I was wondering if you have a github link with your commands available?
Hi Sam.
I’ve updated the post with some of the commands used in the video.
Best regards
Daniel
i want do the automation using usb
Hi Shiyam.
That works just fine. The ISO should be possible to flash / write to an USB stick. There is a lot of programs for that out there.
Best regards
Daniel
I did all this in my mac, how to add this to vbox ? because for me it shows the UEFI shell.
Hi Lekshmi
Don’t know how the bios in an XBox is configured so it might need different boot files.
Thank you for watching my videos.
Best regards
Daniel
I want to automate the installation of ubuntu-desktop using autoinstall.yaml.
After making the necessary changes and repacking the ISO, I ran into a problem:
when flashing the image with balenaEtcher, it shows an error that the partition table is missing;
if I still write the new image to a USB stick, it doesn’t contain an MBR/GPT partition table and therefore won’t boot on a PC.
What am I doing wrong? Do I need to manually specify the partition table when repacking the ISO? How to do it?
Thank you in advance.
Hi Karina
I don’t really know what the problem is but one thing you can try is to use the right firmware interface (eltorito_img1_bios.img) this firmware will work on older machines that support the bios loader. There is another image for UFEI which works on newer machines. So depending on your requirements you choose a firmware. This might be the problem but it could be anything I guess.
Hope it helps. Thank you for watching my videos.
Best regards
Daniel