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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon geerlingguy

Packer template for Ubuntu2204

Open maroskukan opened this issue 1 year ago • 5 comments

Hey Jeff, this should address #93 . I was working on this a little while. It should be aligned with the rest of your builds, uses json and same provisioning scripts as your other boxes.

Some differences include:

  • user-data definition for cloud init as oppose to kickstart file for d-i
  • nfs_udp: false added to synced folder as described in this issue

Some technical details: Builder on Ubuntu 20.04, VirtualBox 6.1.34 Tested on Ubuntu 20.04 and MacOS Sierra.

Hope you find these useful.

Fixes: #93

maroskukan avatar Jul 28 '22 13:07 maroskukan

Thank you! I'll grab this and test as soon as I get a chance, and hopefully be able to push a build up to geerlingguy/ubuntu2204!

geerlingguy avatar Jan 05 '23 02:01 geerlingguy

No worries @geerlingguy I think in the meantime there was a new minor release of the source iso. I can update this PR or you could change that afterwards. Let me know. This build should still work though.

maroskukan avatar Jan 07 '23 09:01 maroskukan

@maroskukan I'm trying to replicate some of your work here with the 22.04.1 live server image. I keep getting thrown into the interactive install process starting with the language selection. Did you encounter anything similar?

stevenscg avatar Feb 14 '23 14:02 stevenscg

Hi @stevenscg , yes. It could be caused by number of things:

Firmware selection, process differs for each of them

  • BIOS (I believe this is what you are using now)
  • EFI

Other issues that may cause you ending up in interactive shell could be influenced in the template by:

  • boot timeout
  • boot commands (e.g. line breaks, escapes etc)

It could be also caused if user-data is not reachable for some reason during installation.

What I would suggest is to perform the installation using user-data file hosted from simple web server (e.g. python -m http-server). And then appending the required arguments to boot command. You can then see whether it fetched the file and failed.

This multi-provider blueprint could help.

maroskukan avatar Feb 14 '23 15:02 maroskukan

@maroskukan Thanks. I'll see if I can figure out and test with the standalone method. FWIW, I tried this branch with only the following URL changed and still get thrown into the interactive mode: https://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/22.04/ubuntu-22.04-live-server-amd64.iso

stevenscg avatar Feb 14 '23 20:02 stevenscg