RE: Installer not reading preseed.cfg

2013-04-09 Thread keshav prabhakar
ound' during install) in the first place and is there a way fix it? Thanks again for the clue regarding update-initramfs! At least, I know that the install is successful. From: kes...@hotmail.com To: tomh0...@gmail.com; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: Installer not reading presee

RE: Installer not reading preseed.cfg

2013-04-09 Thread keshav prabhakar
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: > >> > >

Re: Installer not reading preseed.cfg

2013-03-22 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 5:43 PM, keshav prabhakar wrote: >> >> 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 suppor

RE: Installer not reading preseed.cfg

2013-03-19 Thread keshav prabhakar
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?

RE: Installer not reading preseed.cfg

2013-03-19 Thread keshav prabhakar
>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

RE: Installer not reading preseed.cfg

2013-03-19 Thread keshav prabhakar
> > 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

Re: Installer not reading preseed.cfg

2013-03-19 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 3:48 PM, keshav prabhakar wrote: > 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

RE: Installer not reading preseed.cfg

2013-03-18 Thread keshav prabhakar
> 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

RE: Installer not reading preseed.cfg

2013-03-18 Thread keshav prabhakar
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

Re: Installer not reading preseed.cfg

2013-03-13 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:43 AM, keshav prabhakar wrote: > > 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 .

Re: Installer not reading preseed.cfg

2013-03-12 Thread Bob Proulx
keshav prabhakar wrote: > 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 ...".

RE: Installer not reading preseed.cfg

2013-03-12 Thread keshav prabhakar
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

Re: Installer not reading preseed.cfg

2013-03-10 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 6:25 PM, keshav prabhakar wrote: > > 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 system > No ro

Re: Installer not reading preseed.cfg

2013-03-10 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 8:20 AM, Brian wrote: > On Fri 08 Mar 2013 at 22:22:25 -0500, Tom H wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Brian wrote: >>> On Fri 08 Mar 2013 at 19:04:41 -0600, keshav prabhakar wrote: netcfg/wireless_wep string#d-i mirror/country string USd-i >>> >>> The first p

Re: Installer not reading preseed.cfg

2013-03-10 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 7:54 AM, keshav prabhakar wrote: > > 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.cf

RE: Installer not reading preseed.cfg

2013-03-09 Thread keshav prabhakar
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

Re: Installer not reading preseed.cfg

2013-03-09 Thread Brian
On Fri 08 Mar 2013 at 22:22:25 -0500, Tom H wrote: > On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Brian wrote: > > On Fri 08 Mar 2013 at 19:04:41 -0600, keshav prabhakar wrote: > >> > >> netcfg/wireless_wep string#d-i mirror/country string USd-i > > > > The first post at > > > >http://ubuntuforums.org/sho

RE: Installer not reading preseed.cfg

2013-03-09 Thread keshav prabhakar
Thanks for the pointer. I'll try this and let you all know how it goes.

RE: Installer not reading preseed.cfg

2013-03-09 Thread keshav prabhakar
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

Re: Installer not reading preseed.cfg

2013-03-09 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 4:32 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Tom H wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 8:04 PM, keshav prabhakar wrote: 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 Ma

Re: Installer not reading preseed.cfg

2013-03-09 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Tom H wrote: > On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 8:04 PM, keshav prabhakar wrote: >>> >>> 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_D

Re: Installer not reading preseed.cfg

2013-03-08 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Brian wrote: > On Fri 08 Mar 2013 at 19:04:41 -0600, keshav prabhakar wrote: >> >> netcfg/wireless_wep string#d-i mirror/country string USd-i > > The first post at > >http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1601750 > > is your situation. The second post gives a

Re: Installer not reading preseed.cfg

2013-03-08 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 8:04 PM, keshav prabhakar wrote: >> >> 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 > #

Re: Installer not reading preseed.cfg

2013-03-08 Thread Brian
On Fri 08 Mar 2013 at 19:04:41 -0600, keshav prabhakar wrote: > netcfg/wireless_wep string#d-i mirror/country string USd-i The first post at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1601750 is your situation. The second post gives a solution which is discussed further at https://bugs.lau

RE: Installer not reading preseed.cfg

2013-03-08 Thread keshav prabhakar
> 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

RE: Installer not reading preseed.cfg

2013-03-08 Thread keshav prabhakar
> 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.

Re: Installer not reading preseed.cfg

2013-03-08 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Tom H wrote: > On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 2:02 PM, keshav prabhakar wrote: >> >> 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

Re: Installer not reading preseed.cfg

2013-03-08 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 2:02 PM, keshav prabhakar wrote: > > 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

RE: Installer not reading preseed.cfg

2013-03-08 Thread keshav prabhakar
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

Re: Installer not reading preseed.cfg

2013-03-08 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 9:21 AM, David Sastre Medina wrote: > On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 06:21:39AM -0600, keshav prabhakar wrote: >> >> append initrd=Debian-6.0.7-amd64/netboot/initrd.gz interface=eth1 >> domain=mydomain netcfg/get_nameservers=x.x.x.x >> netcfg/get_hostname=myhostname locale=en_US

Re: Installer not reading preseed.cfg

2013-03-08 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 7:21 AM, keshav prabhakar wrote: > > Networking is setup by the kernel boot parameters that are on the 'append' > line. It looks like this: > > append initrd=Debian-6.0.7-amd64/netboot/initrd.gz interface=eth1 > domain=mydomain netcfg/get_nameservers=x.x.x.x > netcfg/ge

Re: Installer not reading preseed.cfg

2013-03-08 Thread David Sastre Medina
On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 06:21:39AM -0600, keshav prabhakar wrote: > > > This would imply preseeding might have set up networking. Has it? > Networking is setup by the kernel boot parameters that are on the 'append' > line. It looks like this: > append initrd=Debian-6.0.7-amd64/netboot/initrd

RE: Installer not reading preseed.cfg

2013-03-08 Thread keshav prabhakar
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

Re: Installer not reading preseed.cfg

2013-03-08 Thread Brian
On Thu 07 Mar 2013 at 16:45:08 -0600, keshav prabhakar wrote: > 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

Installer not reading preseed.cfg

2013-03-07 Thread keshav prabhakar
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