ubuntu install fiasco

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, Myles Green wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Nov 2006 14:47:36 -0500
> Matthew Carpenter <mcarpenter at intelguardians.com> wrote:
>
>> Googling shows that Colin Watson is "Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com>"
>> (formerly cjwatson at debian.org).
>> He's probably one of the Debian casualties now working for Ubuntu, but
>> not having had a chance to make the shift completely.
>
> :-) Umm AFAIK, Colin has been involved w/ Ubuntu from the beginning, he's
> had an @ubuntu.com email address for almost as long.
>
> ANyway... dropping him an email or, better yet, posting to one of the

Actually, Colin replied to my email shortly afterwards, and was *very* 
helpful.  I'm quite pleased & impressed.  In the unlikely event that 
anyone else ever decides to setup a kickstart environment for Ubuntu, the 
fix that I needed was to add the following line to my kickstart file:
preseed apt-setup/security_host string ""

> forums/lists might scare up the 'real' maintainer (if there is one) or
> perhaps some kind soul will point out the 'Ubuntu Way (tm)' of achieving
> your goal. All I know for sure is that *ubuntu has 3 different install CDs
> (over and above the the different $arch versions): Desktop, Server and
> Alternate with Alternate providing an OEM install method amongst others. My
> point being that there may exist an 'unofficial' solution supplied by one
> of the developers/users that either solves the Llama 's problem or may
> point him in the right direction. I know that right now the Llama is prolly
> thinking that 'the right direction' is towards Fedora Core/RHEL and not
> *ubuntu so all the above is/are likely to be moot, at the very least.

As much as I'd like to agree that 'the right direction' was towards 
FC/RHEL, I really needed to get this fixed & working, or it meant more 
pain for me in the long run, as I'd have to manually install Ubuntu, and 
fix it for our environment.

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