Re: mini.iso fails to boot?

2023-12-05 Thread Dick Visser
On Tue, 5 Dec 2023 at 21:33, Geert Stappers wrote: What / which debian archive is being used? > > (I'm suspecting an outdated debian archive mirror ) > I used just that very URL http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/bookworm/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/ But when I browse

mini.iso fails to boot?

2023-12-04 Thread Dick Visser
the above site and upper directories I don't see any newer mini ISO images. Any ideas...? tnx! Dick Visser

wiki still says preview for debian 12

2023-06-16 Thread Dick Visser
Hii On https://wiki.debian.org/Cloud/AmazonEC2Image/Bookworm it says This preview AMIs are intended to allow you to start testing Debian 12 deployments and migrations before the official release occurs on 2023-06-10. While the changelog at the bottom mentions - *2023-06-12* - Official

Re: bullseye64 Vagrant box does not boot

2023-05-11 Thread Dick Visser
"works for me" vagrant@bullseye:~$ uname -a Linux bullseye 5.10.0-22-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.178-3 (2023-04-22) x86_64 GNU/Linux dick.visser@GA0267 mainstream_distros$ vagrant -v Vagrant 2.3.4 This is on an intel mac with virtualbox Version 7.0.8 r156879 (Qt5.15.2) On Thu, 11 May 2023 at

Re: Cloud-init delay - sometimes

2021-09-30 Thread Dick Visser
of delay. If it is of interest to anyone, this was done by combining "gather_facts=no" with "wait_for_connection" and "setup". thx! -- Dick Visser Trust & Identity Service Operations Manager GÉANT

Re: Cloud-init delay - sometimes

2021-09-28 Thread Dick Visser
39 end=16777183 new: size=41680863 end=41943007 [3.184491] EXT4-fs (nvme0n1p1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) done. Begin: Running /scripts/init-bottom ... done. [3.210828] Not activating Mandatory Access Control as /sbin/tomoyo-init does not exist. [3.36811

Cloud-init delay - sometimes

2021-09-28 Thread Dick Visser
2021 16:13:50 +. Up 42.21 seconds. I guess this is not a problem with the Debian image, and I can probably configure our deployment to cope with this delay, but I'm curious as to why this happens. FYI this is an eu-central-1 (frankfurt). thx -- Dick Visser Trust & Identity Service Operat

Re: Prevent new instances from updating/rebooting?

2021-09-27 Thread Dick Visser
On Thu, 23 Sept 2021 at 12:38, Michael Kesper wrote: > > Hi Dick, > > Am 23.09.21 um 11:52 schrieb Dick Visser: > > To answer my own question: yes this is possible, by using a cloud-init > > style user data blob: > > > > > > #cloud-init > >

Prevent new instances from updating/rebooting?

2021-09-23 Thread Dick Visser
they happen. Is there a way to override this behavior? Perhaps by having some flags/code in the user_data? many thanks -- Dick Visser Trust & Identity Service Operations Manager GÉANT

Re: Prevent new instances from updating/rebooting?

2021-09-23 Thread Dick Visser
To answer my own question: yes this is possible, by using a cloud-init style user data blob: #cloud-init package_update: false package_upgrade: false package_reboot_if_required: false On Thu, 23 Sept 2021 at 11:17, Dick Visser wrote: > > Hi > > I noticed that newly created bullse

Auto installing security updates?

2021-06-21 Thread Dick Visser
all security updates including any dependencies that are not in Debian-Security? If this is the wrong forum, apologies, and what would be a more suitable place to ask. thx! -- Dick Visser Trust & Identity Service Operations Manager GÉANT

New backport AMI jumped ahead

2021-05-11 Thread Dick Visser
0:18:23.000Z" } Because the glob pattern for the Name matches both, and the backport one was released 10 minutes later, this was picked.... I have now updated the glob to "debian-10-amd64-*" so that we pick the non-backported AMI again. -- Dick Visser Trust & Identity Service Operations Manager GÉANT

Re: Configuring /etc/resolv.conf ?

2019-12-06 Thread Dick Visser
The thing I was after is how to have 127.0.0.1 as the resolver. Turns out I just had to uncomment this line in /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf: prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1; thx! On Fri, 6 Dec 2019 at 20:31, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 06, 2019 at 04:42:18PM +0100, Dick

Configuring /etc/resolv.conf ?

2019-12-06 Thread Dick Visser
Hi I'm struggling to add custom nameservers to /etc/resolv.conf. The file gets overwritten on reboot, but I can't find out where this is done. Any ideas? thx -- Dick Visser Trust & Identity Service Operations Manager GÉANT

Re: Buster AMI interface names

2019-10-19 Thread Dick Visser
I think consistent device names were mainly meant for laptops etc where a range of different interfaces popping in and out is a common use case. Servers are more or less the opposite. Btw my NAT script now works great across stretch and buster, and also Ubuntu xenial/bionic work. Thx On Sat, 19

Re: Buster AMI interface names

2019-10-18 Thread Dick Visser
On Fri, 18 Oct 2019 at 02:24, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 01:04:56AM +0200, Dick Visser wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Oct 2019 at 00:53, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > > > Can you explain why this causes problems for you? We want to keep device > > > re

Re: Buster AMI interface names

2019-10-17 Thread Dick Visser
sabled. I'm using one of the AWS shell scripts (configure-pat.sh, which has eth0 hardcoded) to do PAT for private instances, and this can be used with many distros, but now not with Debian Buster. -- Dick Visser Trust & Identity Service Operations Manager GÉANT

Buster AMI interface names

2019-10-17 Thread Dick Visser
n additional reboot and makes deployment harder than it should be (or, than it is with Stretch). Could this perhaps be added to the next build? Many thanks -- Dick Visser Trust & Identity Service Operations Manager GÉANT