proxmox ve now supports an answerfile.
ITJamie opened this issue · 2 comments
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proxmox ve installer menu currently only supports manual installs
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proxmox ve installer now supports an answerfile. it would be great if the installer was extended to support it
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Automated_Installation#Network_Section
This isn't really practical with Proxmox's current implementation because you need to prepare a custom ISO that tells the installer where to find the answer file. It might be possible for the CI pipeline to be updated to make a generic one with a blind --fetch-from http. This would allow users to provide the URL via DNS or DHCP option 251, but there are complications with serving the ISO too. What Proxmox really needs is a kernel option like Debian.
You can set this all up yourself with the existing netboot, though. See https://n1.602176634e-19.pro/006-automated-proxmox-ve-installation-with-netboot.xyz/
Agreed, would be ideal to specify it like Debian but when I looked at this, they currently require it to be baked into the iso. Closing this out for now until there's a better method.