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Subiquity is an installer framework for Ubuntu, providing the Ubuntu Server text UI installer, and Ubuntu Core first boot configuration. It also functions as the backend for other Ubuntu install cases such as the flutter-based Desktop installer and as part of WSL configuration.

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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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Disable auto update at end of autoinstall/cloud-init

I have a working cloud-init that is deployed using packer. Once the VM is booted and the autoinstall is completed, Ubuntu does the auto update thing. This seems to take forever to complete and is an unneeded step since we hand over to puppet after…
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Curtin error on autoinstall Ubuntu 20.04.1

It fails when I try to use a local focal mirror or if I set a proxy. Here is the install log snippet: 2020-12-01 13:47:16,916 DEBUG root:39 start: subiquity/InstallProgress/install/curtin_install/cmd-install/stage-curthooks: configuring installed…
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Running commands after an auto-install

I am installing Ubuntu 20.04 server via UEFI HTTP booting, subiquity and a NoCloud data source. The actual install works and I get the base OS running. I also need to configure some things after installation is complete, or on first boot after the…
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Where do Subiquity's (Ubuntu Server's) disk ids come from, in the disk partitioning stage?

In the manual partitioning stage of Subiquity (Ubuntu Server installer), there is a list of the disks, in the form of ids. However, those are slightly different from the /dev/disk/by-id entries. For example, Subiquity displays…
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Is it possible to convert the system installed from ubuntu-20.10-live-server-amd64.iso to the mini.iso-like system?

I have just installed "minimal" system from the ubuntu-20.10-live-server-amd64.iso ISO. I'm doing this way because there is no mini.iso for 20.10. I see that this system is very big (4.6 Gb!), has 577 deb-packages, contains Snaps (/snap is 506 Mb),…
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Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS: Failed Install (subiquity...install_fail/add_info)

I'm trying to update my home server to Ubuntu 20 however I'm having a bit of a problem. I want to dual boot my current Ubuntu 16 with the new v20. I booted a Live USB and used GParted to shrink my dev/sda1 in size and then directly after it, I…
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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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Ubuntu 24.04 installation with TPM FDE - "Enhanced secure boot options cannot currently install third party drivers"

I got the following message from subiquity when attempting to do a fresh install of Ubuntu 24. Weirdly enough this does not seem to be an issue when I remove the "Install third-party software..." option for the installation. Does any dev know what…
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How can I properly debug a faulty 22.04 LTS Server autoinstall done with the new subiquity frame?

edit2: Over the 2 weeks with subiquity and cloud-init, I pieced together a new shell script with example user-data file and an altered grub.cfg as the one by covertsh did not work for me any longer due to removal of isolinux as part of 21.10. The…
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Autoinstall Failing at Storage Configuration on Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS

I'm encountering an issue using the autoinstall feature on Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS. My goal is to deploy a system with a custom storage layout, but the autoinstall process fails during the storage configuration phase. I’m using the following YAML…
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Failed on Ubuntu 24.10 installation

I am using a Lenovo Thinkbook. Every time I try to install Ubuntu 24.10 with Ventoy, I encounter this error and the installation stop, saying "Something went wrong". I've attempted to re-download the ISO image, but the issue persists. Interestingly,…
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Autoinstall from ISO File - Subiquity apt-get insatll fails from cdrom files

First of all I am not sure that is about a bug or misunderstanding of a concept. I am trying to make a custom ISO w/ autoinstall to automatically install Ubuntu Server 24.04.1 LTS onto our machines. We of course need to install some extra apt…
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Ubuntu 20.04 Autoinstall, Cloud-Init and Subiquity

I'm PXE booting the ISO and using the new Subiquity installer. I've got a working autoinstall setup/config with a working user-data file. What's not working is that I have an ansible: section that the autoinstall completely ignores. The ansible…
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Autoinstall local repository

I have my own ISO based on Ubuntu 22.04 that I generated myself. Here is my Autoinstall - #cloud-config autoinstall: version: 1 identity: hostname: foo-ubuntu password: "ToReplace" username: abcabc source: id:…
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