User:Tonyr/Journal/Nov07

07Nov07

Net install with preseed
Vagrant reworked the ppc net boot/install directories. I added a preseed.cfg file to initrd.img, replaced the existing copy, and tried a net install with promising results. Some settings still asked for user response:

• oem login name
• password re-enter
• partition scheme Guided
• confirm disk to partition
• country with mirror
• mirror url

The hostname is assigned by the dhcp server. Comments in the example preseed file note that the dhcp assigned name will take precedence. If there is no way to change this behavior, the hostname can be changed from the System->Preferences menu after installation. This might be incorporated into a post-install script.