On Jul 19, 2011, at 19:22, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 07:58:04PM -0400, Kyle Moffett a écrit : >> >> The modified installer now retrieves a "public-ip-url" and displays that >> address in the console output instead of the IP found on the network >> interface. This correctly interoperates with Eucalyptus and Amazon EC2. >> >> In those environments you would use the following bit of preseed: >> >> d-i network-console/password-disabled boolean true >> d-i network-console/public-ip-url string \ >> http://169.254.169.254/2007-01-19/meta-data/public-ipv4 >> d-i network-console/public-key-url string \ >> http://169.254.169.254/2007-01-19/meta-data/public-keys/0/openssh-key >> >> I'm also in the process of working on a small Debian-Installer patch to >> automatically prepare a partially-preseeded D-I image following those >> conventions. >> >> I've built a modified network-console with this patch into a slightly >> patched Debian-Installer and successfully used it to begin a network >> install on an Amazon EC2 instance. > > Dear Kyle and Debian Installer team, > > this would be a very interesting feature. Since the Amazon EC2 can boot on > custom kernels, it looks like that with this patch (or using Petter's > workaround), it would be possible to prepare an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) of > Debian-Installer itself, boot it from GRUB (through Amazon's kernels using > PVGRUB and preseed it via initrd, in order to install Debian on an Amazon > Elastic Block. Is that what you have tried ?
That is exactly what I have done. The actual construction of the AMI containing the Debian-Installer is a bit of a pain; I have a shell-script wrapper around the Amazon EC2 tools in order to do marshall it into the official EC2 format, but the patches necessary to make the SSH Console and Debian-Installer play nicely were surprisingly small. Basically, I created a new Debian-Installer image variant with a built-in preseed file containing references to the standard Amazon EC2 infrastructure for loading SSH keys and downloading additional preseed from EC2 "user-data". I will see if I don't have 15 minutes some time soon to dust off those patches to update and resubmit them. Cheers, Kyle Moffett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/f307924f-896d-44b7-8391-672fd05f2...@boeing.com
