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Its a method of installing an OS such as Linux, Mac OS, that requires a functioning Internet connection during installation. Compared to other methods you end up downloading less data as the process will be tailored to your requirements. Ethernet and wireless connections are supported. Internal ISDN cards are unfortunately not supported.

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Automated 20.04 Server Installation using PXE and live server image

How to do an fully automated Ubuntu 20.04 Server install using PXE and the live server image? Reason With the 20.04 release, it seems clear Ubuntu is further pushing the live server installer (subiquity) option. The debian-installer (d-i) image has…
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Ubuntu 20.04 installer downloads ISO more than once

I have been working through the example posted by Andrew Lowther at Automated 20.04 Server Installation using PXE and live server image . For example using a linux cmdline similar to: linux /vmlinuz ip=dhcp…
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What is the proper virt-install location url to use for ubuntu when installing via http?

I'm trying to install Ubuntu in a vm using Virtual Machine Manager. I do however get the following error which leads me to believe that I have not pointed to the correct url. Manually selecting Ubuntu 20.04 LTS as the operating system lets me…
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Preseeded network install is overwriting USB install drive

Let me provide as much information as I can about what I'm doing: I work in a lab development environment managing over 100 server systems. We frequently need to re-image systems with different operating systems and are using CloneZilla to do this…
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Install Ubuntu ARM on headless Marvell Armada 375

I have a headless NAS with Marvell Armada 375 dual core ARMv7 Processor rev 1 (v7l). NAS has one Ethernet and one USB port. I would like to install Ubuntu Server for ARM. I have prepared as USB with initrd.gz and vmlinuz from Ubuntu netboot armhf…
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Network booting Ubuntu 16.04 Server installer via iPXE w/ NFS on UEFI system

I am trying to set up network booting of the Ubuntu mini.iso via iPXE and NFS. I'm currently stepping through everything via the iPXE command line instead of a script. I made sure to build iPXE w/ NFS enabled, and that seems to be working just fine…
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How Can I Make Preseed Work With PXE Netboot?

I've been experimenting with PXE netboot with TFTP for the last few days and I have successfully setup everything except the preseed. I can see that Ubuntu (versions 14.10-15.04, amd64 and i386) successfully pulls the preseed.cfg from my web server…
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Installing Ubuntu with Unity but without the "Big Brother" add-ons and prebundled app cruft

I just tried the minimal Ubuntu install (a 36MB mini.iso) to see if I could get a normal Ubuntu desktop installation with Unity but without the unwanted cruft such as Amazon/Ebay/Music suggestions in search, and the LibreOffice suite, and many other…
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Customized mass installation

I've been trying to find out how to solve this for quite a while now and finally I ended up here hoping to get some help! I have a USB-drive which is working well, but I would like to use that image on the network instead and was wondering if that's…
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Netinstall PXE for Ubuntu 13.04 keeps rebooting

When I try to perform a netinstall with the 13.04 kernel/initrd the PC keeps rebooting without installing anything. The PC starts with PXE, downloads kernel from TFTP, downloads the initrd and immediately after reboots, without any error message or…
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How to install fresh install Ubuntu from running machine?

This is a basic problem that has perplexed me for a while. On a machine running Ubuntu, is it possible to mount a new disk, run the Ubuntu installer the same as you would from a live CD and install on that new disk? I haven't figured out how to find…
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I want netinstall, but I can't!

I want netinstall, but I can't! Just because I don't have ethernet port at all! And netinstall don't have wifi drivers! Sounds awesome, right?
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Bizarre grey screen appearing after main installer page in Ubuntu Bionic

I'm seeing a bizarre grey screen appear right after the main installation page shows up in Ubuntu Bionic. I'm installing this on a VM and I duplicated the settings from an exact replica of the machine I'm installing onto that worked fine with no…
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Network installer USB drive just starts FreeDOS

I want to install Ubuntu over network with a minimal installation from USB drive. On https://www.ubuntu.com/download/alternative-downloads#alternate-ubuntu-server-installer I clicked Download the network installer for 18.04 LTS and then amd64. I was…
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