[07:38] <twb> Hi.  When pxebooting Gutsy's d-i, using dnsmasq for DHCP, DNS and TFTP, I get "Continue without a default route?" right at the start of the install, after trying to configure via DHCP.
[07:39] <twb> This didn't happen last time I set up dnsmasq, what could I have done different this time?
[12:04] <mshadle> ahhh excellent!
[12:05] <mshadle> im trying to use kickstart
[12:05] <twb> Oops, I forgot to say I isolated the fault
[12:05] <twb> It was vmware being a dick and running a second dhcpd on the network.
[20:02] <mshadle> how do i make kickstart just install ubuntu server items
[20:18] <cjwatson> mshadle: have you read the documentation in the installation guide (and the Red Hat documentation to which it refers)? You should be able to use %packages to specify just the packages you want.
[20:18] <cjwatson> mshadle: https://help.ubuntu.com/7.04/installation-guide/i386/automatic-install.html
[20:27] <mshadle> yeah ive been looking at that
[20:27] <mshadle> i mean i could try manually building a list
[20:27] <mshadle> but shouldnt i be able to do like
[20:28] <mshadle> @ base-install
[20:28] <mshadle> @ ssh-server
[20:28] <mshadle> maybe just a couple virtual packages, instead of trying to build a list of everything on the CD that i actually want
[20:29] <mshadle> if i leave it out, it still installs desktop
[20:29] <mshadle> even with a preseed file from ubuntu server
[20:30] <mshadle> i really did try finding examples and looking at the docs :)
[20:31] <mshadle> and ive made a centos kickstart cd before
[20:31] <mshadle> they have the virtual package examples though
[20:33] <mshadle> it'd be neat if there was some way to build the package list and see what your %packages lines translate to
[20:33] <mshadle> i dont know if the system-config-kickstart does that but i do not run x11
[20:50] <mshadle> does the server install cd support kickstart? :p
[21:38] <cjwatson> mshadle: (a) you don't need to list dependencies manually (b) you can certainly use tasks
[21:38] <cjwatson> mshadle: the base system is installed automatically, and you can use @ standard (or @ ubuntu-standard in earlier releases, IIRC) to get the standard system
[21:39] <cjwatson> mshadle: yes, the server install CD supports Kickstart
[21:39] <cjwatson> if a preseed file from the server edition installs the desktop, you're doing it wrong :-)
[21:40] <cjwatson> actually, I suppose not necessarily if you're installing from the network
[21:40] <cjwatson> anyway, putting just '@ standard' in %packages should suppress the desktop installation, and you can build on that