I just tried putting the netinst CD in the drive, and PXE booting, and the installation does proceed further.
I still have things to resolve with my preseed.
On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 3:27 PM, Tony Schreiner anthony.schreiner@bc.edu wrote:
I see no access from this client in the cobbler servers apache log.
On the failing client, after I get the missing CD-ROM message, I open another virtual console, and the ip link command shows only lo: I don't appear to be getting a network. I can look at /var/log/syslog in the console, and do not see any mention of network setup,
However I see in the syslog main-menu[204] : INFO: Menu item 'cdrom-detect' selected.
which I guess just reflects that the pop up menu came up. Looks like a clue, but I don't know how to disable that.
On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 1:52 PM, Libin Chen slgraychan@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Tony: Can you check the apache log to see if the Debian-installer try to get seed file from cobbler server?
slgray On May 26, 2016 04:50, alastair@alastair-munro.com wrote:
Ah yes i remember you.
Personally i would stick with something more mainstream like Ubuntu LTS something. Enterprise Linux still makes the best servers imho.
We pxe build ubuntu 12.04 <1204> but the developers have now seen the benefit of using centos. we have ubuntu 14.04 <1404> pxe booting too but its not used much at our site.
-- Alastair Munro
-----Original Message----- From: Locane locane@gmail.com To: cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org Cc: anthony.schreiner@bc.edu Sent: Wed, 25 May 2016 21:36 Subject: [cobbler] Re: cobbler managing debian install no CD-ROM detected
Hey that's me!
I can't remember where I ended up with this, but I got farther with that guy's suggestion. I ended up abandoning it for other more pressing projects.
I do remember it still not working totally.
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 1:33 PM, alastair@alastair-munro.com wrote:
http://serverfault.com/questions/754360/debian-8-3-0-pxe-installer-asking-fo...
-- Alastair Munro
-----Original Message----- From: Tony Schreiner anthony.schreiner@bc.edu To: cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org Sent: Wed, 25 May 2016 21:23 Subject: [cobbler] Re: cobbler managing debian install no CD-ROM detected
Failed to reply to the list, resend.
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 4:20 PM, Tony Schreiner < anthony.schreiner@bc.edu> wrote:
PXE boot with whatever the cobbler profile provides
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 4:17 PM, alastair@alastair-munro.com wrote:
Hi
How did u boot? pxe boot or via iso image? if iso image how was this presented? usb stick? if so how was the iso written to usb? dd works best in my experience.
-- Alastair Munro
-----Original Message----- From: Tony Schreiner anthony.schreiner@bc.edu To: cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org Sent: Wed, 25 May 2016 20:45 Subject: [cobbler] cobbler managing debian install no CD-ROM detected
Have been managing CentOS system with cobbler for a while, and decided to try to add Debian to the mix.
I loop mounted the firmware-8.4.0-amd64-netinst.iso image, which is current Jessie netinst + non-free firmware, and ran import as
# cobbler import --name=jessie --breed=debian --os-version=jessie --path=/mnt
task started: 2016-05-25_144840_import task started (id=Media import, time=Wed May 25 14:48:40 2016) Found a candidate signature: breed=debian, version=jessie
running: /usr/bin/file /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/jessie/dists/jessie/Release received on stdout: /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/jessie/dists/jessie/Release: ASCII text
received on stderr: Found a matching signature: breed=debian, version=jessie Adding distros from path /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/jessie: creating new distro: jessie-x86_64 trying symlink: /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/jessie -> /var/www/cobbler/links/jessie-x86_64 creating new profile: jessie-x86_64 creating new distro: jessie-gtk-x86_64 trying symlink: /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/jessie -> /var/www/cobbler/links/jessie-gtk-x86_64 creating new profile: jessie-gtk-x86_64 creating new distro: jessie-xen-x86_64 trying symlink: /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/jessie -> /var/www/cobbler/links/jessie-xen-x86_64 creating new profile: jessie-xen-x86_64 associating repos checking for apt repo(s) adding apt repo for jessie-x86_64 Added repos for jessie-x86_64 adding apt repo for jessie-gtk-x86_64 Added repos for jessie-gtk-x86_64 adding apt repo for jessie-xen-x86_64 Added repos for jessie-xen-x86_64 *** TASK COMPLETE ***
looks pretty normal. I have created a sub-profile based on jessie-x86_64 called jessie-precision670 (old dell workstation), but the only difference is the assignment of preseed file slightly modified from sample.seed as the kickstart. Then I assigned this profile to a system.
When the system installs, during the hardware discovery, it shows:
No common CD-ROM drive was detected.
...
and I cannot proceed. This seems to be before network detection takes place. I first tried with the regular debian-8.4.0-amd64.iso image; the network driver is e1000.
Any suggestions?
Tony S
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