The desktop installer might download an update via the snap store and restart the installation process. Some of our users have found this difference from the tutorial to be jarring – could we add the screenshots of the installer self-updating and restarting from the beginning?
Thanks
The BitLocker section should be updated with how to decrypt/remove BitLocker from the command line manage-bde c: -off. this is especially useful if BitLocker is “waiting for activation”:
Currently the installer does not auto-update: Bug #2047034 “Noble ubuntu-desktop-installer does not refresh” : Bugs : subiquity
Etcher didn’t work with the image, didn’t create a bootable disk.
Rufus did work.
For every complaint that “X didn’t work, but Y did,” there is typically a matching complaint in the opposite direction. No single application or method works for everybody. New versions of those applications change the calculus, too. It’s a rich tapestry. There are numerous tutorials about how to use each application if the one in the example does not work for some folks.
Suggest to add reference to https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/create-a-usb-stick-on-ubuntu#5-confirm-usb-device as alternative to balenaEtcher for those who already run Ubuntu.
There is no affiliation with Balanaetcher. We simply wanted a tutorial that could be followed across Windows, Mac and Linux. Those using startup disc creator likely already know how to install Ubuntu since they have it already, therefore we chose a tool that is available consistently on non-Ubuntu platforms!
Looks like a URL is missing here. Could we get that added? Thanks!
Added sorry! There’s still a couple of screenshots I need to update here and pulled together an autoinstall tutorial on my blog last night to help in the meantime: https://blog.local-optimum.net/getting-started-with-autoinstall-on-ubuntu-desktop-24-04-lts-147a1defb2de
I am missing all of the detailed documentation on how o use the autoinstall options. Auto install for VM’s, auto install on a network… perhaps it is located somewhere and i am not seeing it? This does not seem to be working: “${bin_virt_install}” --name ${vm_name}
–vcpus “${_cpu}”
–memory “${_mem}”
–network “${virt_net}”
–disk size=“${_dsk}”
–os-variant=“ubuntu23.04”
–video “virtio” --channel “spicevmc”
–disk path=“${CloudConfigDir}/cidata.iso,device=cdrom”
–location=“${iso},kernel=casper/vmlinuz,initrd=casper/initrd”
I would start here @stephan-schutter https://canonical-subiquity.readthedocs-hosted.com/en/latest/reference/autoinstall-reference.html .
There is also a github repo of examples for reference: subiquity/examples/autoinstall at main · canonical/subiquity · GitHub
