Javier Palacios wrote:
> Except that the Debian installer reads "Your installation
CD-ROM could
> not be mounted. This probably means that the CD-ROM was not in the
> drive. If so you can insert it and try again. Try again to mount hte
> CD-ROM? Yes/No"
>
> [...]
>
> So what it looks like to me is that the preseed file just needs some work to make
this fully automated, or else I should not be using
> the netinst image with the import?
>
> Either way, let me know. I think this would be really awesome if we could use this
to replace FAI and also get Cobbler
> packaged in the Debian trees.
>
The sample.seed will produce a partly automated install (specifically,
should not ask for language and keyboard), but the message
about missing CD is very likely due to absence of network enabled initrd.
If possible, try an ubuntu import, as the initrd is probably more
versatile. In the case of debian, the netinstall CD will not be
imported because it has only a isolinux directory, but as far as I
remember there is a "heavy" network install CD that might work.
Anyway, I'll investigate this.
Could be, but I think there's more to it ... how does it know the
content is in /var/www/cobbler when it is not referenced in either the
kernel options or the preseed?
I think that's the problem.
At least with Anaconda behavior, the same kind of thing pops up if you
don't specify the install source.
Can you check the preseed in git to see if it looks right ot you? I
possibly remember something being added in a later patch.
Getting it to full auto would also be nice, as then we can trumpet
ourselves as a nice replacement for FAI. Getting full auto is of
course the "FA" in FAI, so we'd want it to do that straight off of import.
> Anyway, I've applied everything to devel and otherwise looks awesome. Thanks
very much for working on this!
>
I've been revisiting the previous import code, and I'm working in a
small refactoring that will probably re-enable importing of multiple
distros at the same time, at the price of all of them sharing a single
breed specified at command line, and will also make easier to add
other distros.
Excellent.
Javier Palacios
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