Niltze- On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 6:37 AM, Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote: > On Sun, 2018-08-12 at 00:25 +1200, Richard Hector wrote: >> On 12/08/18 00:16, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> > On Sat, 2018-08-11 at 22:58 +1200, Richard Hector wrote: >> > [...] >> > > I'm mostly familiar with the netinst image, and it's what I generally >> > > use to install on real hardware. >> > > >> > > I'm less familiar with netboot, but have used it for PXE installs >> > > (right?) >> > > >> > > What I'm missing is how I can use either of them on a remote KVM VPS, >> > > where I get to see the boot process on some kind of remote console, and >> > > I have the opportunity to provide a bootable ISO, but not much else. >> > > >> > > I've tried providing the netinst ISO, and it boots but can't find itself >> > > for installing packages. >> > >> > OK, so you're only providing the netinst ISO? Somehow I got the >> > impression that you were providing a separate initramfs. Sorry for the >> > irrelevant answer. >> > >> > > Is that a matter of the appropriate storage drivers not being included, >> > > or is it the way the VPS provider set up the virtual CD? >> > >> > It's both! libvirt can provide (through QEMU) an emulated CD drive >> > attached to an Intel PATA controller, Intel SATA controller, LSI Logic >> > SCSI controller or virtio SCSI controller. I've just verified that the >> > installer works for all of the first three options, but not virtio. >> > >> > If there's an option to configure the CD drive to be attached through >> > one of the other controllers, you should choose that. But we should >> > also add virtio drivers to the standard installer initramfs. >> >> Great, thanks heaps for all that effort. >> >> I don't think there's (currently) a way to attach it differently (though >> I could request that, and they well might do it - which might help >> people who want to install other distros too). >> >> But in the meantime, can I tell the installer to download a different >> initramfs which will work? Or does one of the other installer ISOs (ie >> not the netinst ones) come with a suitable initramfs? > > I can see two options: > > - Rebuild the standard installer with virtio-modules included, and then > rebuild the netinst ISO image > - Build an ISO image from the netboot installer > > But neither of those are easy unless you're already familiar with the > process. > > Ben. > UpCloud provide a similar interface to Virt-Manager when installing your own OS. They address the issue being discussed here -- by describing 'a trick' to install your own OS:
< https://www.upcloud.com/support/using-own-installation-media/ > I can confirm it works as reported in < https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=847230 > Best Professional Regards. -- Jose R R http://metztli.it --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Download Metztli Reiser4: Debian Stretch w/ Linux 4.17 AMD64 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- feats ZSTD compression https://sf.net/projects/metztli-reiser4/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Official current Reiser4 resources: https://reiser4.wiki.kernel.org/