hello debian users,
I am trying to understand an issue i'm having with preseed'ing over the
network. wondering if anyone has experienced this in the past and/or have a
solution to it.
My pxeboot server (running on centos 6.3) runs dhcpd and tftp from where I'm
trying to boot and install debia
Hello debian users,
I am trying to understand an issue i'm having with preseed'ing debian install
over the network. wondering if anyone has experienced this in the past and/or
have a solution to it.
My pxeboot server (running on centos 6.3) runs dhcpd and tftp from where I'm
trying to boot an
mentioned before, preseed.cfg is fetched but never used:
192.168.1.199 - - [08/Mar/2013:06:36:37 -0500] "GET /anaconda/cfg/preseed.cfg
HTTP/1.1" 200 1483 "-" "Wget"
Keshav
> Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 08:23:24 +
> From: a...@cityscape.co.uk
> To: debian-us
Thanks for responding.
> When you define "interface=eth1" in your "append" statement, the
> entire installation's meant to be done via this NIC. I doubt that you
> can switch the NICs around via your preseed file as you're trying to
> do - as is evidenced by the fact that d-i tries to contact deb
> Back to square one...
>
> Can you wget your preseed file from a d-i console?
yes, the preseed file downloads successfully with wget. This was the next thing
I tried after `wget http://www.debian.org` but missed mentioning before.
> Also 1483 seems like a very small preseed file.
It is. # ls -l preseed_Debian-6.0.7.cfg -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1488 Mar 8
14:00 preseed_Debian-6.0.7.cfg# more preseed_Debian-6.0.7.cfg #d-i
netcfg/dhcp_timeout string 60#d-i debian-installer/locale string en_US#d-i
console-keymaps-at/keymap
oh wow! Frankly, this is the best, most detailed response I have ever gotten on
any list so far. :) but seriously, I can't thank enough for your time and
interest. really appreciate it.I didn't pay much attention to my preseed.cfg
yet since I was still trying to figure mirror issue. Also, I hav
Thanks for the pointer. I'll try this and let you all know how it goes.
d-i mirror/country string manual
d-i mirror/suite string stable
yes, those two lines did the magic! Thanks.It started reading from the local
server but...now, it's stopping next at this error:
No root file systemNo root file system is defined.
Please correct this from the partitioning menu.
I
looks like I didn't 'reply all' before..
> As a start and without diagnosing further, I'd boot from an install CD
> in rescue mode and re-create the initramfs either with
> "update-initramfs -u -k ..." or "update-initramfs -d -k ... ;
> update-initramfs -c -k ...".
>
> You might want to run "upda
sorry, I got distracted by some other project for the past week..
> It's "/usr/sbin/update-initramfs". Do you have "/usr" mounted?
>
no. it's not mounted. see below.
> What choices did you make for rescue mode?
>
I think I chose the correct options:
1. booted off of CD drive
2. Ins
> That looks like you ran a shell in the installer environment. You
> want to run the shell in the target environment.
> Thanks for your response.you were right. The shell was in the installer
> environment. I couldn't get the rescue mode to find the disk partition at
> all.. (I posted the de
>
> It all looks OK except for the fact that d-i can't see your disks.
>
> Are your disks still attached?! While at that screen, go to VT2 and
> run "fdisk -l".
yes, it looks like it.
~ # fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 17.1 GB, 17179869184 bytes255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2088
cylindersUnits = cylin
>I just remembered, I'm using a linux 5 template ('Guest OS: Debian GNU/Linux 5
>(64-bit)') to install Debian 6. not sure if that's causing the issue, somehow.
>(I'm using ESXi 4.0 server, which is quite old and it doesn't support >
>'Debian GNU/Linux 6' as one of the templates). Let me try w
I also just did a `update-initramfs -d` followed by `initramfs -c -k
2.6.26-2-amd64` and `update-grub`. Anything in particular that I should be
looking for in the output?
really apologize for not responding sooner.
> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 06:08:13 -0400
> Subject: Re: Installer not reading preseed.cfg
> From: tomh0...@gmail.com
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 5:43 PM, keshav prabhakar wrote:
> >>
> >
d.cfg
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 10:43:44 -0500
really apologize for not responding sooner.
> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 06:08:13 -0400
> Subject: Re: Installer not reading preseed.cfg
> From: tomh0...@gmail.com
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 5:43 PM, ke
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