Abhijit Navale's questions

I am trying to automate Ubuntu installations using Cobbler and preseed.

I referred to this officical sample seed file for Ubuntu: https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/installation-guide/example-preseed.txt

I only edited the network related part in this file and now this is my sample.seed file: http://paste.ubuntu.com/7793361/

I did not edit anything else. My target machine has two NICs: eth0 and eth1. Only eth1 is connected to cobbler server through a private network.

After booting the Ubuntu Mini ISO it asks me to manually select between eth0 and eth1 and also ask to manually configure ip, netmask and other details as shown here: http://imgur.com/L2IrAmV
However, I have already set all these settings in that preseed file.

I have set my seed file location correctly as /var/lib/cobbler/kickstarts/sample.seed.

For testing purpose I disabled the second NIC, and only enabled one NIC. Then I manually set the network information. Still Ubuntu tries to use DHCP and says "can not configure network" and halts. Same issue if I use kickstart instead of preseed.

Kindly help to troubleshoot this issue. How can I make Ubuntu to autoselect eth1 and apply all other networking settings such as IP address, network mask, etc. automatically?

I am using OpenSUSE 12.2 and I would like to apply the default look and feel of Xubuntu 12.10.

I would like to know what is the

1. Default desktop theme name
2. Icon set name
3. Default settings of the dock (the dock at the bottom) - how to apply transparency etc
4. What are other general default settings to make it feel like xubuntu.
5. Where can I get xubuntu 12.10 / ubuntu 12.10 wallpapers?
6. What is the mouse icon theme?

I chose to encrypt the home folder while installing Lubuntu 12.10 (64-bit), but after that, sometimes I get error that the system "cannot find /dev/mapper/cryptswap1 wait for mount or cancel at splash screen". Then, Lubuntu starts without any problems.

blkid shows

/dev/mapper/cryptswap1: UUID="fce3ef14-a9c6-45ac-81f5-18ff415851b0" TYPE="swap" 

That means swap is encrypted, but if I go to Gparted, it shows an unknown partition with a red exclamation mark for swap.

What is the keyboard shortcut to switch to Applications tab in gnome3 dash? The Gnome dash which comes up when we press windows meta key / super key. I want to minimize the keyboard use.

Also how can I switch back to Windows Tab again using keyboard shortcut?

I have 10.10 cd iso image. I want to add ubuntu manual to this iso image such that, after burning this iso image to cd, in live cd mode and after installation that ubuntu manual should appear in the desktop. I am using acetoneISO. I wanted to know the location in iso image where to add the manual.

I am using external usb keyboard. I want to disable laptop's internal keyboard using software.

I know that i can just remove the internal keyboards wire and disconnect it physically, but i wanted to disable it using software so that later I can enable it by just executing a command in terminal easily. I am talking about disabling the keyboard and NOT the keyboard layout.

I am having Hp-Compaq Presario A965 TU Laptop Intel Centrino Core 2 Duo(Freq. 2 GHz). I am using 64 bit Ubuntu Lucid Lynx.

I scanned pen drive using clamscan and I closed the terminal after scanning without reading the result.

Now one of my folders on the pen drive is missing. I wanted to know if clamav deleted it.

So I want to view the last scan result.