Does kickstart work on 20.04 LTS

[Tom H]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 2:27 PM Jerry Geis <jerry.geis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have tried both
> ubuntu-20.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso
> ubuntu-20.04.1-live-server-amd64.iso
>
> I had a kickstart file I used on CentOS - was trying to get it to
> work.
>
> I added this to my txt.cfg file
> label LSI
>   menu label ^Install Ubuntu 20.04 LSI
>   kernel /casper/vmlinuz
>   append  file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed only-ubiquity
>   initrd=/casper/initrd quiet splash biosdevname=0 net.ifnames=0
>   ks=/cdrom/kickstart/ks_server_ubuntu20.cfg ---

AFAIK, neither the ubiquity nor subiquity installers can be used with
kickseed because it was designed to work with d-i.

You'll have to get the 20.04.1 ubuntu-legacy-server ISO to use kickseed.

You might want to look into the subiquity autointall method. I haven't
yet, but it's on my todo list.