(originally posted @: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-xen-devel/2010-April/002731.html; this list recommended as more appropriate ...)
Hi, I'm (a Debian-noob) installing Debian as a Xen Guest on a non-Debian Xen host. Using, xm create \ -c ./xm-debian.cfg \ install=true \ install-method="network" \ install-mirror=ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian \ install-arch=amd64 \ install-suite=squeeze \ install-kernel=./vmlinuz \ install-ramdisk=./initrd.gz I can get to the manual installer and stepwise do the install. I'd like to setup a preseed-based autoinstall. I've created a first/simple preseed file & made it available on an nfs:// volume. Reading @ (are there better / more recent docs?), http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg136362.html suggests, " ... You can pass a NFS path in the form of nfs://$host/$path/$file and network-preseed will mount the NFS share and copy the file to d-i ..." I've tried adding both, install-extra="url=nfs://192.168.1.2/srv/preseed.cfg" & install-extra="preseed/url=nfs://192.168.1.2/srv/preseed.cfg" In both cases, at guest launch, I get no apparent error -- but, the pressed file is not found/used. A helpful offlist comment from Phil H. got me looking in the right direction, checking if nfs:// protocol actually exists: "I'd check that support for that protocol really exists first. If you flip to a shell (Ctrl-Alt-F2) when the url fails to do the trick, for the nfs thing to work I'd assume that you'd need a fetch method file called: /usr/lib/fetch-url/nfs" I tried the (Ctrl-Alt-F2) within the Guest's Xen Console output ... but, unfortunately, that only seems to work for my local machine; the server Host & Guest are a remote, headless box :-/ Further advice, " ... looking at Martin's patch: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2006/01/msg00016.html that's the old code that didn't rely on fetch_url, so if you want this functionality the code that does the mounting in this patch would need to be put into an nfs fetch-url method, as mentioned above. ..." Suggests to my read that the required nfs-protocol support is NOT there -- yet. So,to ask: *is* the required support to mount/access the preseed cfg over nfs there, or not? If so, what am I doing wrong? If not, what info, if any, can I provide to help get it in? Thanks, BenDJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
