Re: please supply some documentation for bootnetx64.efi. Also choosing different preseed for each netboot.

y, and you could derive whatever you can from it. Raymond Burkholder https://blog.raymond.burkholder.net/

Re: ifupdown/dhcp

On 2022-05-08 2:07 p.m., Steve Langasek wrote: On Sun, May 08, 2022 at 11:24:12AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: I've been trying to make sense of the NEWS item in isc-dhcp-client (that alternatives are needed) in combination with the functionality of ifupdown and what the implications are for

Re: serial console install issues

On 4/11/21 8:37 PM, Richard Hector wrote: On 11/04/21 11:51 am, Richard Hector wrote: Then finally, I can't remember how, I discovered that it didn't like displaying on a 24-line terminal, which most of the terminals I tried default to. With a 25-line terminal, it all seems useable - and

Re: Bug#983835: base-installer: hostname= is ignored if reverse-dns exists

On 3/2/21 10:15 AM, Phil Dibowitz wrote: On 3/2/21 1:58 AM, Holger Wansing wrote: Am 2. März 2021 09:52:06 MEZ schrieb Cyril Brulebois : The preseed doc[2] suggests the former is behind the (bare) hostname alias. Try setting the latter? Yes, the installation-guide under

Bug#982995: Installation Report

On 2/17/21 3:20 PM, Jeff Forsyth wrote: Comments/Problems: RPI4 with 4GiB Ram. This system is netbooted using RPI-UEFI 1.22 and iPXE 1.2.x. DNSMASQ send the RPI-UEFI to the RPI. The RPI-UEFI pulls the arm64 EFI/ipxe. The iPXE shows a menu for booting into the Debian Installer. The

Bug#859509: partman-auto uses memory size to determine disk partitioning and fails on high ram installs

On 2020-02-28 1:41 p.m., Jelle de Jong wrote: So I hit this issue installing on my HP server while with the same preseed succesfully installed on a few other systms So I made a virtual machine put 20GB ram in there and an 8GB drive and could reproduce the problem. How can we force

Re: pxe booting qemu

On 2019-09-23 5:26 a.m., john doe wrote: On 9/23/2019 12:41 PM, Michael Kesper wrote: On 23.09.19 10:27, john doe wrote: I'm currently using the netinst.iso file to install Debian as a guest VM using Qemu. This approach works fine if you want to install multiple VM on the same host. My goal

Re: Creating my own Preseeded ISO with partman replaced by a ZFS step

On 2018-08-10 04:51 PM, Bailey Parker wrote: I'd like to somehow modify the installer ISO that I create when preseeding to include ZFS (so that before the package manager is configured, a ZFS pool can be created), replace the partman step with some custom scripting that [creates a zpool and sets

RE: Beginner guidance sought - creating my own boot environment based on the Debian installer

You might be looking for debian preseed capability? https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apb.html I pxeboot my servers, and feed them a preseed file to auto install the basic operating system to get to a minimal stable system. I then use SaltStack to automatically install

Bug#875858: pkgsel: Offer to install/manage unattended-upgrades

You can tell me if I am 'beating a dead horse' but for the sake of argument, let us see where this goes On 12/11/2017 11:41 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 12:22:07PM -0400, Raymond Burkholder wrote: I think its totally adequate to assume people want automatic

Bug#875858: pkgsel: Offer to install/manage unattended-upgrades

On 12/11/2017 11:51 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 04:41:38PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 12:22:07PM -0400, Raymond Burkholder wrote: I think its totally adequate to assume people want automatic security updates, on all kinds of systems, unless

Bug#875858: pkgsel: Offer to install/manage unattended-upgrades

> > So, as an accommodation, a flag in the preseed mechanism to > enable/disable would be helpful. > > You mean something like: > > Template: pkgsel/update-policy > Type: select > Default: unattended-upgrades > > pkgsel/update-policy=none thus seem the perfect preseed choice for your > use

Bug#875858: pkgsel: Offer to install/manage unattended-upgrades

> > I think its totally adequate to assume people want automatic security > updates, on all kinds of systems, unless they opt out. Security updates, yes. Automated, no. Desktops, maybe. Servers, no. For my infrastructure, updates, of what ever kind, need to be incorporated into the

install to harddrive, ignore connected usb, reboot with preseeded grub

Package: grub-installer Version: 1.140+deb9u1 Is there a magic incantation for preseed files to install to a harddrive when usb is present? There are two stages: usb appears as /dev/sda during install process, but appears as something else, maybe /dev/sdd during normal boot Therefore, the

debconf/priority=low has no effect on pxeboot

I picked up today's netboot: https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/amd64/daily/netboot/netboot.tar.gz This is my pxeboot process via the dnsmasq tftp boot daemon: Oct 16 15:28:53 dnsmasq dnsmasq-dhcp[2032]: PXE(ens160) 10.1.0.24 00:50:56:ae:8d:15 pxelinux.0 Oct 16 15:28:54 dnsmasq

Bug#878553: netcfg: "download debconf preconfiguration file"

Package: netcfg Version: 1.145 I have been running pxeboot with preseed successfully for a while. Recently, with a new version of netboot from (as of today 2017/10/13/): https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/amd64/daily/netboot/netboot.tar.gz I am now getting a pop up box with "Download debconf

Bug#771699: Provide A Preseed Option For Ignoring The Valid-Until Field of InRelease Files

> > Mostly "we take (working) patches"? > Fair enough. Would you be able give me push in the right direction and provide a hint as to which packages/files I should be looking at?

Bug#771699: Provide A Preseed Option For Ignoring The Valid-Until Field of InRelease Files

On Mon, 02 Nov 2015 18:58:34 +0100 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Cyril Brulebois (2015-11-02 17:20:04) > > I've added this to my (not really ever-growing but yet non-empty) d-i > > to-do list, and I'll do the BTS dance (cloning and reassigning to > > debootstrap etc.) if I