On Fri, 2013-08-23 at 11:02 +0200, Emmanuel Kasper wrote: > Yes the Debian installer can load its preseed file from a floppy or usb > stick, but you would still need to remaster the iso to add your > modified isolinux.cfg, which would then look for your floppy preseed.
RHEL also doesn't search for kickstarts automatically, but you can tell it to do so via the kernel boot parameter (ks). Using libvirt you can do this with --extra-args, using VirtualBox you have to send keystrokes to the console, have a look a NeuroDebian scripts to see how they implemented this. > At some point I tried provisioning with virtinstall, and then > converting the img to OVA format. A virtinstall qemu image works on > VirtualBox but a kvm crashes on startup. Okay, but then what's wrong with qemu? Is it so unacceptably slow? Regarding the crashing KVM image, I would speculate that this is because it rebuilt the initrd so that it's not generic anymore. Not sure whether you can suppress this on Debian... > If you look for more generic solutions you could also have a look at > https://wiki.debian.org/VMBuilder ( maintained up to Debian6, not > working on recent debian versions ) and ubuntu vm-builder ( for ubuntu > guests) Hmmm, sounds interesting. -- Sincerely yours, Yury V. Zaytsev _______________________________________________ Neurodebian-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/neurodebian-devel
