Can't install a Debian 10 virtual system through netboot

2019-09-19 Thread Fred Boiteux
    Hello, I'm trying to install a Debian 10.1 on a virtual machine (qemu) running on a host without Internet access, using the neboot system. I've setup net ressources to allow network boot on the VM, getting a grub menu where I can select Debian 10 installation. The VM then downloads linux

Re: Error en debian 10

2019-09-19 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Williams Jose Damas Martinez wrote: > > Good morning, I have a problem with this debian 10 version that does not > happen with debian 8, the battery icon in the debian 10 version with no > charge says 100% all the time placed the charge or without charging, that is, > it does not measure

Re: Can't install a Debian 10 virtual system through netboot

2019-09-19 Thread Geert Stappers
On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 05:25:53PM +0200, Fred Boiteux wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to install a Debian 10.1 on a virtual machine (qemu) running on a > host without Internet access, using the neboot system. I've setup net > ressources to allow network boot on the VM, getting a grub menu where I

Adding packages to mini-gtk iso

2019-09-19 Thread Lonnie Cumberland
Hello All, First, let me say that I really like what I have seen in Debian, after being a Ubuntu user for many years. I was driving to dig into Debian more when I got to the point that I wanted to build the gtk mini.iso as an ultra slim distro with xorg installed (only about 75 MB) which is a very

Re: Adding packages to mini-gtk iso

2019-09-19 Thread Geert Stappers
On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 04:51:00PM -0400, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: > Hello All, > > First, let me say that I really like what I have seen in Debian, after > being a Ubuntu user for many years. I was driving to dig into Debian more > when I got to the point that I wanted to build the gtk mini.iso a

Re: Adding packages to mini-gtk iso

2019-09-19 Thread Lonnie Cumberland
Thanks for getting back to me so quickly and I will start digging on it. On a related question, I was just wondering if it was strictly required to use udeb packages instead of deb packages. in particular, for this single package that I want to add. Could it be left as a deb package? Although, I

Bug#940801: missing virtio block Kernel Objects

2019-09-19 Thread Geert Stappers
Package: debian-installer Hi, The netboot tarball misses virtio block drivers. This makes it unnessecary tiresome to install Debian VMs on not-Internet-connected server. More information in next email. This email is creating the bugreport. Groeten Geert Stappers -- Leven en laten leven

Re: Adding packages to mini-gtk iso

2019-09-19 Thread Geert Stappers
On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 05:06:19PM -0400, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: > On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 5:00 PM Geert Stappers wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 04:51:00PM -0400, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: > > > > > > Now I would like take an existing deb package, perhaps convert it to udeb, > > > and then ins

Bug#940801: Fwd: Re: Can't install a Debian 10 virtual system through netboot

2019-09-19 Thread Geert Stappers
Why this bugreport was created. - Forwarded message from Geert Stappers - Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 19:15:09 +0200 From: Geert Stappers To: debian-boot@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Can't install a Debian 10 virtual system through netboot User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2) On Thu, Sep 1

Bug#940801: The missing kernel module

2019-09-19 Thread Geert Stappers
Hi, Doing: mkdir newdir cd newdir wget http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/buster/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/netboot.tar.gz tar xf netboot.tar.gz mkdir newerdir cd newerdir zcat ../debian-installer/amd64/initrd.gz | cpio -id find . -name virtio_\* Gives: ./lib/modules/4.19.0

Bug#940801: missing virtio block Kernel Objects

2019-09-19 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 10:56:55PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > The netboot tarball misses virtio block drivers. > This makes it unnessecary tiresome > to install Debian VMs on not-Internet-connected server. This is intentional. netboot is for booting from _network_. On the network you got a d

Re: Can't install a Debian 10 virtual system through netboot

2019-09-19 Thread Geert Stappers
On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 07:15:09PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 05:25:53PM +0200, Fred Boiteux wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm trying to install a Debian 10.1 on a virtual machine (qemu) running on a > > host without Internet access, using the neboot system. I've setup net