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["MacIsaac, Michael (CORP)" <Michael.MacIsaac@xxxxxxx>]

Frank,

Thanks for the reply – no worries on the delay – I have no expectations.

I deleted the leading ‘d-i’s – same result with this PARMFILE:

locale=en_US auto=true priority=critical
url=http://51.16.116.227/config/ubuntu.cfg
netcfg/get_hostname=cdlengubu06
netcfg/get_domain=es.ad.adp.com
s390-netdevice/choose_networktype=qeth
s390-netdevice/qeth/layer2=true
s390-netdevice/qeth/port=0
s390-netdevice/qeth/choose=0.0.0350-0.0.0351-0.0.0352
apt-setup/proposed=true
s390-dasd/dasd=0.0.0151
s390-dasd/auto_format boolean true

Yes, DHCP.  When I get the question about passwords, the system-in-memory already has an IP address.

This time I continued, gave the password, SSHed in and left the installer to a shell.  I look in /var/log/syslog and see some interesting info – the preseed file is being read and there is at least one issue with it:

May 27 10:16:35 preseed: successfully loaded preseed file from http://10.1.116.227/config/ubuntu.cfg
May 27 10:16:35 main-menu[203]: (process:376): expr: warning: '^.*\[[:a-fA-F0-9]*\]': using '^' as the first character
May 27 10:16:35 main-menu[203]: (process:376): of a basic regular expression is not portable; it is ignored

This is good to know.  So I will continue plugging …

Thanks for your help.

    -Mike

From: Frank Heimes [mailto:frank.heimes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2016 3:40 PM
To: MacIsaac, Michael (CORP)
Cc: ubuntu-s390x@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-s390x] Preseeding s390-dasd is now available

Hi Mike,
sorry for the delayed response, but there is a bank holiday this week here (and for some also a bridge day) ...
The first thing that I see is that you must not prefix the boot parameters with "d-i", this is only req. in the preseed file itself.
Apart from that it doesn't look to bad, but review the network settings again - DHCP or manually ?

locale=en_US
auto=true
priority=critical
url=http://10.1.116.227/config/ubuntu.cfg
s390-netdevice/choose_networktype=qeth
s390-netdevice/qeth/layer2=true
s390-netdevice/qeth/port=0
s390-netdevice/qeth/choose=0.0.0350-0.0.0351-0.0.0352
netcfg/get_hostname=myhostname
netcfg/get_domain=example.com<http://example.com>
apt-setup/proposed=true
s390-dasd/dasd=0.0.0151
s390-dasd/auto_format boolean true

In case you want to manually set the network, you need also:
netcfg/use_autoconfig=false
netcfg/disable_dhcp=true
netcfg/get_ipaddress=
netcfg/get_netmask=
netcfg/get_gateway=
netcfg/get_nameservers=
netcfg/get_hostname=myhostname
netcfg/get_domain=example.com<http://example.com>

Bye, Frank

On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 7:45 PM, MacIsaac, Michael (CORP) <Michael.MacIsaac@xxxxxxx<mailto:Michael.MacIsaac@xxxxxxx>> wrote:
Hi,

I got the yakkety ISO image downloaded and mounted.  Thanks Frank.

To get an automated install using preseeding, I have tried *LOTS* of permutations on parameters.
I get to the "Configuring the network with DHCP", and I do get a DCHP address. But then it always goes to :
  Generating SSH host key
  Continue installation remotely using SSH
  You need to set a password for remote access to the Debian  installer
  …

Here's the latest set of parms I tried:

locale=en_US auto=true priority=critical
url=http://10.1.116.227/config/ubuntu.cfg
d-i netcfg/get_hostname=myhostname
d-i netcfg/get_domain=example.com<http://example.com>
d-i s390-netdevice/choose_networktype=qeth
d-i s390-netdevice/qeth/layer2=true
d-i s390-netdevice/qeth/port=0
d-i s390-netdevice/qeth/choose=0.0.0350-0.0.0351-0.0.0352
d-i apt-setup/proposed=true
d-i s390-dasd/dasd=0.0.0151
d-i s390-dasd/auto_format boolean true

The install process does not seem to be going to the specified URL.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks.

    -Mike M

From: Frank Heimes [mailto:frank.heimes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:frank.heimes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2016 10:05 AM
To: MacIsaac, Michael (CORP)
Cc: ubuntu-s390x@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:ubuntu-s390x@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-s390x] Preseeding s390-dasd is now available

Hi Michael,
the server daily builds are available from here:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-server/daily/current/
Look for "yakkety-server-s390x.iso", because the "y" version is the one currently in development.

Bye, Frank

On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 3:54 PM, MacIsaac, Michael (CORP) <Michael.MacIsaac@xxxxxxx<mailto:Michael.MacIsaac@xxxxxxx>> wrote:
Frank,

Thanks for the append.

Where do I get the daily ISO image for s390x?  I found http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/20160523/ but it only has AMD64 and i386.

I also found http://us.ports.ubuntu.com/dists/yakkety/main/installer-s390x/current/images/ but that looks like just the kernel and RAMdisk.

Thanks.

    -Mike M.


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