Univention Bugzilla – Bug 51186
Interactive PXE Installation is not possible
Last modified: 2020-04-29 12:44:06 CEST
Documentation (https://docs.software-univention.de/installation-4.4.html#profile:netinstaller) says: "Univention Net Installer supports both the interactive and profile-based installation." But when trying a pxe based installation it will not work as the needed file (at /var/lib/univention-client-boot/pxelinux.cfg) is not created by UDL as long as an installation profile is not set. (ie by udm computers/memberserver modify --dn cn=pxe,cn=memberserver,cn=computers,dc=multi,dc=ucs --set instprofile=FILL-ME-IN ) The mentioned file has to be created manually: touch /var/lib/univention-client-boot/preseed/FILL-ME-IN Once set and created, the file named with the MAC-address of the server gets created and the installation starts. But the above installation profile needs top be configured! If it is just an empty file it will not even get the correct repository servers and try to access the default Debian archives. Installation will fail for sure! So it is not possible to perform an interactive installation as a minimum set of information would be needed anyways. At little bit later, documentation states: "The name of the installation profile relative to /var/lib/univention-client-boot/preseed/ can [....]". As installation does not work if not given this should be marked as mandantory!