hello without packer, if you do a VM manually with this kickstart, does the kickstart work?
can you ssh to the vm after the reboot? alvaro On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 3:22 PM Tim Bodhini <[email protected]> wrote: > So, after some time and other tasks I finally managed to attach my GUI to > the VNC ... The only thing I can report is: > It starts the anaconda installer and returns messages like: > - Running pre-installation scripts > - Not asking for VNC because of an automated install > - Not asking for VNC because text mode explicitly asked for in kickstart > - Starting automated install ... > after that it just repeats the dots and is timing out. I've now increased > the timeout and will wait until I get some proper error .... > > And by the way: this is another try to post my ks -> > > #version=DEVEL > # System authorization information > auth --enableshadow --passalgo=sha512 > # Install OS instead of upgrade > install > # Use network installation > url --url="http://pulp.mydomain.com/pulp/repos/stable/centos/7/base/"; > repo --name="CentOS" --baseurl= > http://pulp.mydomain.com/pulp/repos/stable/centos/7/base/ > repo --name="CentOS-Updates" --baseurl= > http://pulp.mydomain.com/pulp/repos/stable/centos/7/updates/ > # Use text mode install > text > # Firewall configuration > firewall --disabled > firstboot --disable > ignoredisk --only-use=vda > # Keyboard layouts > # old format: keyboard us > # new format: > keyboard --vckeymap=us --xlayouts='' > # System language > lang en_US.UTF-8 > > # Network information > network --bootproto=dhcp --device=eth0 --ipv6=auto --activate > network --hostname=localhost.localdomain > # Reboot after installation > reboot > # Root password > rootpw SomePass > # SELinux configuration > selinux --disabled > # System services > services --enabled="network,sshd/postfix,chronyd" > # Do not configure the X Window System > skipx > # System timezone > timezone Etc/UTC > # System bootloader configuration > bootloader --append="nomodeset crashkernel=auto" --location=mbr > --driveorder="vda" --boot-drive=vda > # Clear the Master Boot Record > zerombr > # Partition clearing information > clearpart --all --initlabel > # Disk partitioning information > part /boot --fstype="ext2" --ondisk=vda --size=512 > --fsoptions="relatime,nodev" > part / --fstype="xfs" --ondisk=vda --size=9487 > > %pre > bootdrive=vda > > if [ -f "/dev/$bootdrive" ] ; then > exec < /dev/tty3 > /dev/tty3 > chvt 3 > echo "ERROR: Drive device does not exist at /dev/$bootdrive!" > sleep 5 > halt -f > fi > > cat >/tmp/kspre.cfg <<CFG > zerombr > bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=$bootdrive --append="nomodeset" > clearpart --all --initlabel > part /boot --ondrive=$bootdrive --fstype ext2 --fsoptions="relatime,nodev" > --size=512 > part / --ondrive=$bootdrive --fstype xfs --size 1 --grow > CFG > > %end > > %packages > acpid > at > chrony > cronie-noanacron > crontabs > kexec-tools > logrotate > mailx > mlocate > net-tools > openssh-clients > openssh-server > postfix > rsync > tmpwatch > vixie-cron > wget > which > yum > yum-cron > yum-utils > -aic94xx-firmware > -atmel-firmware > -bfa-firmware > -biosdevname > -ipw2100-firmware > -ipw2200-firmware > -ivtv-firmware > -iwl100-firmware > -iwl1000-firmware > -iwl3945-firmware > -iwl4965-firmware > -iwl5000-firmware > -iwl5150-firmware > -iwl6000-firmware > -iwl6000g2a-firmware > -iwl6050-firmware > -kernel-firmware > -libertas-usb8388-firmware > -prelink > -ql2100-firmware > -ql2200-firmware > -ql23xx-firmware > -ql2400-firmware > -ql2500-firmware > -rt61pci-firmware > -rt73usb-firmware > -sendmail > -xorg-x11-drv-ati-firmware > -zd1211-firmware > > %end > > %addon com_redhat_kdump --enable --reserve-mb='auto' > > %end > > On Monday, 7 January 2019 14:39:57 UTC+1, Rickard von Essen wrote: >> >> You can install "vncsnapshot" on the machine running Packer and capture >> some images and transfer back. Most likely you kickstart doesn't complete >> correctly, the installed OS doesn't startup correctly etc. Or your SSH >> credentials are incorrect. >> >> It can also be an idea to run the build locally first to get it >> working properly, since debugging locally is much simpler. >> >> And by the way you can tunnel VNC over SSH. >> >> On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 2:17 PM Tim Bücher <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> So, I'm actually working behind a firewall and am not able to connect to >>> the vnc. Is there any other way how to debug this? >>> >>> Another little thing: I just posted my centos7-ks.cfg here and the >>> message was deleted just a few minutes ago. why though? >>> >>> -- >>> This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - >>> https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. 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