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 but the developers have now seen the benefit of using centos. we have ubuntu 14.04 pxe booting too but its not used much at our site. -- Alastair Munro -----Original Message----- From: Locane <[email protected]> To: cobbler mailing list <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] 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, <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://serverfault.com/questions/754360/debian-8-3-0-pxe-installer-asking-for-cdrom > > -- > Alastair Munro > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tony Schreiner <[email protected]> > To: cobbler mailing list <[email protected]> > 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 <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> PXE boot with whatever the cobbler profile provides >> >> On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 4:17 PM, <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> >>> To: cobbler mailing list <[email protected]> >>> 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 >>> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.fedorahosted.org/admin/lists/[email protected] > >
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