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As yet, the Ubuntu installer only supports a subset of Kickstart’s features. The following is a brief summary of features that are known to be missing:


• LDAP, Kerberos 5, Hesiod, and Samba authentication.

The auth --enablecache command to enable nscd.

Upgrades. To upgrade from one Ubuntu release to another, use the facilities provided by apt and its frontends.

• Partitioning of multiple drives. Due to current limitations in the partition manager, it is only possible to partition a single drive.

Using the device command to install extra kernel modules.

• Driver disks.

• Firewall configuration.

• Installation from an archive on a local hard disk or from an NFS archive.

The logvol --percent, --bytes-per-inode, and --fsoptions options for certain kinds of detailed Logical Volume Management (LVM) configuration. (LVM configuration in general is experimentally supported as of Ubuntu 9.04; please let us know about your experiences with it.)

• Restrictions of a partition to a particular disk or device, and specifications of the starting or ending cylinder for a partition.

• Checking a partition for bad sectors.

• RAID configuration.

• Exclusions in %packages sections are no longer supported as of Ubuntu 6.10, as a casualty of other improvements. You may need to use a %post script instead to remove unnecessary packages.

• Pre-installation scripts and non-chrooted post-installation scripts may only be shell scripts; other interpreters are not available at this point in the installation.


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