From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KAbfU-00077I-Oq for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:20:32 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KAbfT-00076k-7Q for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:20:32 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49997 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KAbfT-00076e-2V for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:20:31 -0400 Received: from qb-out-1314.google.com ([72.14.204.171]:33971) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KAbfS-0005LH-Rt for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:20:30 -0400 Received: by qb-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id c6so6527872qbc.8 for ; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:20:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <485F085C.5060209@quinthar.com> Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:20:12 -0700 From: David Barrett MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] How to use -append to automate Ubuntu install? Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org What's the proper way to use -append to automatically select and begin an Ubuntu installation? I tried this, but nothing happened (ie, it behaves the same as if I didn't set it): sudo qemu -cdrom Ubuntu_8.04_i386.iso -append "file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed initrd=/install/initrd.qz quiet --" test.raw I expected it to automatically begin the default desktop install (pressing F6 at the install prompt shows that this is the boot line the installer uses), but instead it just prompted me as normal. I'm pretty familiar with QEMU, but I've never used -append before so I'm not sure how to accomplish what I'm trying. Can you offer any suggestions? Thanks! -david