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Re: time to clarify my (mis)understanding of ubuntu autoinstall.yaml

  • Subject: Re: time to clarify my (mis)understanding of ubuntu autoinstall.yaml
  • From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday [ at ] crashcourse [ dot ] ca>
  • Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2025 12:16:09 -0400 (EDT)
On Tue, 19 Aug 2025, Jean-Francois Messier via linux wrote:

> Not sure whether this would work with Ubuntu, but for Red Hat, you
> could mount a separate ISO file as a secondary CDROM, or a Floppy
> image containing the autoinst.yaml and it would install it as per
> this YAML file. Please correct me if I'm wrong. As for not
> re-creating a whole new ISO file, I think Robert is right. Unless,
> of course you have new packages you also need to be added to the
> ISO. 

  hoping i have time this afternoon/evening to test this, but as i
read this page:

https://canonical-subiquity.readthedocs-hosted.com/en/latest/tutorial/providing-autoinstall.html

my interpretation of the section "Autoinstall on the installation
media" is that all I need to do is add a file called
"autoinstall.yaml" at the top of the ISO image, and that's it -- the
installer should look for such a file and use it if it's there. it
doesn't look like i need to make any other changes than that.

  do others read that the same way?

rday