Re: Installing Debian remotely in an unmanaged VPS

2014-10-27 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 04:17:55PM -0500, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: I'd like to install Debian in an unmanaged VPS which has Debian installed already. This is so that I can customize the installation by using LVM for instance. I'm following https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Remote but

Re: Installing Debian remotely in an unmanaged VPS

2014-10-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 25 oct 14, 16:17:55, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: Hello. I'd like to install Debian in an unmanaged VPS which has Debian installed already. This is so that I can customize the installation by using LVM for instance. I'm following https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Remote but it

Re: Installing Debian remotely in an unmanaged VPS

2014-10-26 Thread Mario Castelán Castro
I see. I have noticed that there's a preseeding parameter network-console/authorized_keys_url, which may point to an URL. Is there a way I can *embed* my SSH public key in the initrd and then use file:/// or similar and likewise embed the public key to be used by the server? Will it

Re: Installing Debian remotely in an unmanaged VPS

2014-10-26 Thread Mario Castelán Castro
I see. I have noticed that there's a preseeding parameter network-console/authorized_keys_url, which may point to an URL. Is there a way I can *embed* my SSH public key in the initrd and then use file:/// or similar and likewise embed the public key to be used by the server? Will it

Re: Installing Debian remotely in an unmanaged VPS

2014-10-26 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Mario Castelán Castro marioxcc...@yandex.com (2014-10-26): I have followed https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Remote. It almost worked. The problem is that the built image still prompts for a keyboard layout locally, and so the image don't meets it purpose for local installation. My

Re: Installing Debian remotely in an unmanaged VPS

2014-10-26 Thread Mario Castelán Castro
I have followed https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Remote. It almost worked. The problem is that the built image still prompts for a keyboard layout locally, and so the image don't meets it purpose for local installation. My preseed.cfg is this: d-i debian-installer/locale

Fwd: Re: Installing Debian remotely in an unmanaged VPS

2014-10-26 Thread Mario Castelán Castro
Thanks for your help, but I have already included the part of the example that relates to keyboard configuration and it doesn't work. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Installing Debian remotely in an unmanaged VPS

2014-10-26 Thread Mario Castelán Castro
I achieved success with this preseed: d-i debian-installer/localestring en_US d-i console-setup/ask_detect boolean false d-i console-setup/layoutcode select us d-i keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap select us d-i keyboard-configuration/toggle select No

Installing Debian remotely in an unmanaged VPS

2014-10-25 Thread Mario Castelán Castro
Hello. I'd like to install Debian in an unmanaged VPS which has Debian installed already. This is so that I can customize the installation by using LVM for instance. I'm following https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Remote but it seems like I'd have to keep an ISO image in the hard disk