r our situation, how to build an installer image that
can PXEBOOT and then build a system on bare iron (server, no CD/DVD slot).
Thanks!
Miles Fidelman
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In practice, there is. Yogi Berra
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couple of well-defined include and exclude statements, and end up with a
systemd-free system.
So.. what can I do to help (given that I'm a sys admin, not a c coder).
Miles Fidelman
On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 13:09:19 +0900 Kenshi Muto wrote:
> At Fri, 17 Oct 2014 05:57:30 +0200,
> Cyril Brul
Stefano Canepa wrote:
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:29:44AM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Just for the heck of it, I copied the mini.iso to both / and /boot
on my hard disk and tried the installer again.
Now it reports, after a deep search, "no installer iso images found"
... &qu
Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i
-- Package-specific info:
Boot method: USB
Image version: squeeze, daily build 9/14/10 16:07 using netinst .iso
Date: 9/14/10 approx. 5pm
Machine: custom tower
Partitions:
r...@linuxbox:/home/milesf# df -Tl
FilesystemType 1K-block
Package: installation-reports
Severity: important
Tags: d-i
system has two mirrored disks, /dev/md0 is boot, /dev/md2 is root
selecting grub-legacy, and specifying either /dev/hda or (hd0) for installation
results in a menu.lst file with the line
groot=(md0) and all of the boot sections starting
Package: installation-reports
Severity: important
Tags: d-i
eth0 is intel board
eth1 is broadcom card
installer 1st asks for firmware (e100/d102e_ucode.bin) - download from
debian.org per install instructions, put on usb stick, insert - seems to load
(takes several minutes)
then, selecting eth1
Joey Hess wrote:
Miles Fidelman wrote:
Next, download a Debian netinst CD image, and copy that file to the
memory stick; any filename is ok as long as it ends in .iso.
Actually, the instructions AREN'T that clear. The instructions start
out with:
"The
Christian Perrier wrote:
Quoting Miles Fidelman (mfidel...@meetinghouse.net):
Err, you're not supposed to put the mini.iso on the USB stick, but
either the businesscard or netinst images.
the instructions page implies that you can do a netboot, using the
.iso found i
tion will need to change at release time (from: use the daily
build bits, to a final formulation), what might be the procedure for
submitting two versions of the documentation?
Miles Fidelman
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. Yogi Berr
At someone's suggestion, I tried configuring syslinux.cfg to set
INSTALL_MEDIA_DEV=/dev/sdc1
Well
- the installer still can't find the .iso, but now
- exiting to shell indicates that INSTALL_MEDIA_DEV=/dev/sdc1, but...
- instead of mounting /dev/sdc1 as /hd-media, the installer has mounted
Just for the heck of it, I copied the mini.iso to both / and /boot on my
hard disk and tried the installer again.
Now it reports, after a deep search, "no installer iso images found" ...
"while one or more possible iso images were found, they did not look
like valid installer iso images"
daily build doesn't work - details at end
Christian PERRIER wrote:
tags 596633 moreinfo
thanks
Quoting Miles Fidelman (mfidel...@meetinghouse.net):
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: USB Installer
Image version: download of testing files dated 9/10/10 per USB in
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: USB Installer
Image version: download of testing files dated 9/10/10 per USB install
instructions
Date: 9/12/10 5pm EST
Machine: custom built tower
Processor:
Memory: 1G
Partitions:
Output of lspci -knn (or lspci -nn):
Base System Installation Checkl
Package: debian-installer
Version: squeeze alpha1 USB installer dated 9/10/10
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
I just build a USB key containing the squeeze installer, based on the
bits currently linked from the debian testing installer page.
After booting, the installer
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: netinstall CD
Image version:
3.1r2, downloaded July 2006 (not sure of the exact date)
downloaded from
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r2/i386/iso-cd/debian-31r2-i386-netinst.iso
Date: 7/20-24/06
Machine: Supermicro P8SCT 1U rack-mount server
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