Appendix C: Automated Installation

This section provides information about automated installations.

C.1 Installing with Autoinstall

Autoinstall allows you to automate the installation process by providing a configuration file with the answers to commonly asked installation questions. For Grace platforms, NVIDIA provides the following Autoinstall templates:

• https://repo.download.nvidia.com/baseos/ubuntu/ubuntu-files/2204/arm64/ai/user-data.grace

• https://repo.download.nvidia.com/baseos/ubuntu/ubuntu-files/2404/arm64/ai/user-data.grace

For more information about using Autoinstall files with an Ubuntu Server, refer to the Ubuntu Autoinstall Guide and the Curtin documentation.

In these files, there are tags that you must replace with site-specific information including the following:

• User

• Timezone

• Hostname

Each tag is in the <CHANGE_YOUR_xxxx> form and must be replaced with your information.

1. After you customize the autoinstall file for your installation, place that file in a location that can be accessed by NFS, FTP, HTTP, or HTTPS.

   Note

   The Ubuntu autoinstall expects the following files to be in the location:

   • user-data

   • meta-data

   • vendor-data

   You must rename user-data.grace to user-data and create the other two files. These files can be empty.

2. After booting from the installation medium, when the grub menu appears, press e to edit the grub entry and append the following to the list of kernel boot parameters:

   autoinstall ds=nocloud-net;s=http://url.to.autoinstall.files/