Ubuntu 22.04 Unattended Auto Server in Desktop ISO

A short video on how to do a fully automatic unattended install from an Ubuntu server and a desktop computer, as Ubuntu 22.04 complicates some things…

information used:
https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/hpc/ubuntu-22-04-server-autoinstall-iso/
https://github.com/canonical/autoinstall-desktop
https://releases.ubuntu.com/jammy/
song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?voYgLh81LQT0

commands used in the video:

sudo apt install p7zip
sudo apt install xorriso
sudo apt install whois

mkdir u22.04-autoinstall-ISO
cd u22.04-autoinstall-ISO
mkdir source files

7z -yx ubuntu-22.04.2-live-server-amd64.iso -osource-files

cd source files
mv '[BOOT]' ../BOOT

menu entry /"Ubuntu server automatic installation/" {
set gfxpayloadkeep
linux /casper/vmlinuz silent automatic installation dsnocloud//;s/cdrom/server/ —
initrd /casper/initrd
}

mkdir source/server files
Touch source/server/metadata files
Touch source files/server/user data

#cloud-config
automatic installation:
version 1
packages:
– Ubuntu-desktop
clichés:
– name: Firefox
– name: gnome-3-38-2004
– name: gtk-common-themes
– name: snap-store
– name: snapd-desktop-integration
identify:
hostname: HOSTNAME
password: PASSWRD #mkpasswd –methodSHA-512 PASSWORD_HERE
username: USERNAME

cd source files

xorriso -as mkisofs -r //
-V 'Ubuntu 22.04 LTS AUTO (EFIBIOS)' //
-o ../ubuntu-22.04-autoinstall.iso //
–grub2-mbr ../BOOT/1-Boot-NoEmul.img //
-partition_offset 16 //
–mbr-force-bootable //
-append_partition 2 28732ac11ff8d211ba4b00a0c93ec93b ../BOOT/2-Boot-NoEmul.img //
-appended_part_as_gpt //
-iso_mbr_part_type a2a0d0ebe5b9334487c068b6b72699c7 //
-c '/boot.catalog' //
-b '/boot/grub/i386-pc/eltorito.img' //
-no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table –grub2-boot-info //
-eltorito-alt-boot //
-e '–interval:appended_partition_2:::' //
-no-emul-boot //
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