ubuntu install fiasco

[Myles Green]

On Thu, 9 Nov 2006 19:22:49 -0500 (EST)
Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:

> 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 ""

Sweet. Glad to hear the solution was revealed as quick as it was. 
 
> > 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.
 
Right, I keep forgetting who you work for these days! :) 

-- 
Myles Green
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