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Kickstart is an automatic installation method of Linux originally developed by RedHat. Answers to questions during installation are pre-defined in a kickstart file (Default: ks.cfg).

RedHat documentation link: https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Installation_Guide/ch-kickstart2.html

Ubuntu also support Kickstart with some limitations: https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/installation-guide/i386/automatic-install.html

Alternate method is preseeding: https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/installation-guide/i386/preseed-intro.html

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Steps to create a kickstart server on Ubuntu 14.04

Need a step by step procedure for creating a kickstart server on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
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Where is a list of available package groups for kickstart?

Due to (very) long-time bug in system-config-kickstart, the package selection section does not list available packages, one has to edit the ks.cfg: This question explains how. An example given in the question is %packages @…
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How to create an Ubuntu Desktop kickstart CDROM on 12.04?

I want to create a kickstart image through CDROM on Ubuntu 12.04, but I am not having success.
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Is there any way to autoinstall Ubuntu without root-password and without sudoer?

I'm trying to fully automate VM-provisioning. Therefore I trying to get Ubuntu to install without any passwords. Authentication is configured afterwards by puppet. I tried the following statements inside my kickstart file: I tried user --disabled or…
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Locating a kickstart file on a client

I accidentally deleted my custom Ubuntu 16.04 kickstart file from my PXE server. I remember seeing it as a local file on a client that used this server and kickstart to install Ubuntu, but I can't find it anymore. Does somebody know where the…
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